Zawe Ashton – författare

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod. In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?'Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely' The Times'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' Elizabeth Day, author of How To FailSelected by Bernardine Evaristo as one her 20 books by Black British Womxn Writers

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod. In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?'Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely' The Times'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' Elizabeth Day, author of How To FailSelected by Bernardine Evaristo as one her 20 books by Black British Womxn Writers

“they like to see us fallto slip on branches full of fruit we have not tasted”Lately, it''s small things.Pop songs.The radio.Every day, anguish becomes madness.Call on your family.Call on the ancestors.Can they guide you home?“we are pearl and earth and rootwe know ourselves to be natural and completecarved from rock that floatsbut we should still be careful what we wish forsome of us can sink in the upstream”for all the women who thought they were Mad is an urgent piece of theatre examining the myriad of forces that collide and conspire against women of colour in Britain today.