Pachamama Productions and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with Traverse Theatre

Scottish-based Cora Bissett is an award-winning actor and theatre director. Over the course of her career, she has worked across an extremely diverse range of theatre styles from classical, physical, devised and experimental, creating her own devised shows and working collaboratively with artists from different genres. In 2009 she founded Pachamama Productions and her critically acclaimed work Roadkill, exposing the hidden world of sex-trafficking, was the first production in Edinburgh Fringe history to win every major theatre award 2010.

Roadkill is based on a real-life encounter with a young woman from Benin City, Nigeria, who has been trafficked to Scotland. Staged in a seedy basement flat, the site-specific nature of the work places the audience in the young woman’s world as you witness at close quarters how her hopes of a new life are turned into violent scenes of rape, brutality and captivity in the sleazy world of sex trafficking. Together with strong writing and excellent performances from the cast, this groundbreaking production is a powerful and deeply affecting piece of theatre which upsets and shakes the most hardened theatre goer to the core. Roadkill contains scenes of violence and is unsuitable for very young audiences. It will appeal to promoters interested in new writing, site-specific staging and issue-based theatre.