King Troll
New Diorama Theatre, 2024
Writer - Sonali Bhattacharyya
Director - Milli Bhatia
Designer - Rajha Shakiry
Associate Designer - Yimei Zhao
Lighting Designer - Elliot Griggs
Composer and Sound Designer - XANA
Movement Director - Iskandar Sharazuddin
Fight Director - Bret Yount
Casting Director - Arthur Carrington
Assistant Director - Neetu Singh
Production Manager – Chris Burr
Wellbeing Practitioner - Eshmit Kaur
Stage Manager - Stacey Nurse
Assistant Stage Manager - Masha Kononovs
Photography - Helen Murray
With Diyar Bozkurt, Ayesha Dharker, Zainab Hasan, Dominic Holmes, Saffiya Ingar
A dystopian tale about the corrosive impact of state racism and the monster within two migrant sisters.
Finalist for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, King Troll (The Fawn) is a dark and otherworldly thriller about two South Asian sisters, desperate to escape the border regime without losing their humanity. Is that even possible on this island?