Kidnap

Talking with my dear friend Bernadette Moore about something that happened to her when she was just ten years old and the impact it had on her life.

Chloe Okora was kidnapped by her father to Nigeria.

Years later, two people kidnapped as children, talk.

I was kidnapped to Saudi Arabia as a child.

Naturally, I made it into a comedy.

Then something unexpected happened. Other people who’d been kidnapped as children started finding me.

So this is where the conversation carries on.

I’m a writer, actor and trained counsellor, which means I’m professionally qualified to sit with difficult feelings and personally qualified to make inappropriate jokes about them.

Kidnap is about the stories we don’t quite know what to do with. The messy bits. The funny bits. The bits that don’t fit neatly into trauma, recovery or a three-act structure.

I’ll tell you mine. I want to hear yours.

No trauma porn. No inspirational music swelling underneath.

Probably some swearing.

Please contact me at [email protected]

Music by David Dower at www.daviddowermusic.com

Production John Whitworth [email protected]