…CAKE
Offie 2021 Finalist for Best Production & 2021 Alfred Fagon longlist, …cake is a psychological drama which unapologetically queers the existing complexities of family, roots and belonging; where power and duty dance in equal measure.
Written by babirye bukilwa, direction + dramaturgy by malakaï sargeant
Theatre Peckham, 2021
THE COSTUMED GALLERY
A co-created dance-theatre piece queering the 17-19C Western European portraiture held in the National Gallery, interrogating the art’s – and the building’s – relationship to suppression, rebellion and liberation.
Created & performed by the Company.
Co-direction & choreography by Lee Smikle; Co-direction & dramaturgy by malakaï sargeant.
Presented by University of Arts London (UAL) at the National Gallery, 2023
WE ARE HERE TO MAKE CHANGE
A group of young activists meet at a training camp to dedicate their lives to preparing for The Action. Except, no-one seems to know what The Action is. Or why they’re doing it… A satirical exploration of digital protest, extractive activism and the optics of justice, commissioned as part of the venue’s Open Court SW1 programme.
Written by Rhianna Ilube, directed by malakaï sargeant
Royal Court Theatre, 2022
YUMMY
The year is unknown. The players are nameless. Money is king. Being picked is God.
Four Black femmes have made it to the last round of the game, everything is at stake yet nobody is eating.
The rehearsed reading of YUMMY examined the relationship between diet culture, fatphobia, anti-Blackness, self-harm, class and misogyny. A full-length version is currently under commission.
Written by babirye bukilwa, direction & dramaturgy by malakaï sargeant.
Commissioned by & presented at Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2022.
FOXES
Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders's debut play queers conceptions of masculinity on the backdrop of inner-city turmoil battling with religion and convention.
Written by Dexter Flanders, directed by James Hillier
Associate direction by malakaï sargeant
Theatre503 & Theatre Peckham, 2021
PACIFY
Debut production from The S+K Project, a part-devised, part-scripted poetic theatre piece about the abuse of power in romantic relationships, misogyny and gendered violence that then toured to schools and youth theatres.
Co-written & co-directed by malakaï sargeant & Steven Kavuma, with additional writing by Kasey Thompson.
Presented by The S+K Project at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, 2014.
DO NITTIES LIVE FOREVER?
A week-long R&D for Kareem’s debut solo show; a commemoration to Grahame Park estate before its demolition is completed to make way for gentrifiers.
Written & performed by Kareem Parkins-Brown, direction & dramaturgy by malakaï sargeant.
Commissioned by & presented at Battersea Arts Centre, 2019.
OVER TO YOU
Rehearsed readings of new writing by Black & Asian writers, with two 20-minute plays given to two director-dramaturgs, selected from an open call.
Directed by malakaï sargeant & Sita Thomas.
Presented by Tamasha Theatre Company at Rich Mix, 2019.
THE INCREDIBLE TALE OF MWINDOW
Adapted, co-created & co-directed by malakaï sargeant & Steven Kavuma, scripted by Nel Crouch
Presented by Haringey Shed, in association with The S+K Project & supported by the Royal Court Theatre, 2015.
CALM
Part-devised, part-scripted production involving 30 actors, musicians and dancers from Hackney and the surrounding areas. A two-week rehearsal process resulting in performing on Hackney Empire’s main stage.
Written by Nicôle Lecky, directed by Stella Odunlami. Associate direction by malakaï sargeant.
Commissioned by & presented at Hackney Empire as part of ADP, 2019.
VOID
A striking exploration of the soul's anatomy – and what it’s consumed by – from a debut writer, implicating the audience in a frenzy of spiralling poetry, movement and Tesco meal deals.
Written by Rumi Woolf, directed by malakaï sargeant
Hackney Showroom, Camden People’s Theatre, Spotlight Youth Centre & Battersea Arts Centre (London tour), 2018.