Hassan Mahamdallie (Dervish)
Hassan is a playwright and director and is internationally known as a political activist, thinker, facilitator, policy maker and trainer in equality, culture, religion, history and arts. He authored the Arts Council’s Creative Case for Diversity. Published work includes: Tell It Like It Is: How Our Schools Fail Black Children; Defending Multiculturalism (ed); monographs on Stephen Lawrence affair; Crossing the ‘River of Fire’, biography of artist, William Morris. He contributes to books and essays and was Common Wealth Theatre’s resident writer on I Have Met The Enemy (Oct 2019). Work for his company, Dervish, includes the acclaimed The Crows Plucked Your Sinews (Contact/Albany), 2 national tours and Grahamstown Festival, S Africa, Alfred Fagon Award nomination. Hassan is currently co-writer and director, with Julie McNamara on White Pariahs:Quiet Rebels.
On Crows: “Is this the future of British Theatre? I hope so.”- Media Diversified. crowsdrama.com
Quiet Rebels
by Julie McNamara & Hassan Mahamdallie Political drama-noir, with film, reclaimed footage and music. Set in England in 2028, we’re confronted with a dystopian, authoritarian state, where people who marry across the race lines are considered traitors. A view of a future disunited kingdom that might feel too close for comfort? ‘Powerfully innovative and fiercely…
The Crows Plucked Your Sinews
Dervish in association with The Albany present The Crows Plucked Your Sinews. Performed by Aisha MohammedLive music by Abdelkader SaadounWritten & Directed by Hassan Mahamdallie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnbZMo6reYs Read More about The Crows Plucked Your Sinews
