story. But he does so seamlessly, and seemingly effortlessly.
4.
I was lucky enough to work with Inua Ellams at Spoke-lab at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2009. Spoke-lab was an initiative started by myself and the director Dawn Reid to provide a safe space for the investigation and experimentation of spoken word within a theatrical context. Inua was there on time and prepared every week. We looked at work and got scraps of stuff up on the floor critiqued, praised and reworked. Inua took to the process easily but was always pushing himself and seemed to have a ceaseless flow of ideas streaming from him every week. I still remember though the day he stepped on to the floor and proceeded to play all the parts of a team in a basketball game where the crowd starts to jeer him with racist taunts and his white teammates were pulling together to fortify and protect him emotionally in the game. I was nearly moved to tears then, as I am now just thinking about it. It was very powerful, but what I saw was someone who found his voice in the theatre and it all seemed to coalesce (to me at least) in that space with that piece. I knew he’d go on to do great things in theatre and he did. So it is no surprise that a basketball show with all the power and emotion of what I saw in Spoke-lab some six years ago has come to fruition.
The Spalding Suite produced by Fuel, commissioned by Southbank Centre and Contact, funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, was first performed on 23 April 2015 at Contact, Manchester.
| Director | Benji Reid |
| Designer | Ti Green |
| Dramaturg | Nina Steiger |
| Sound | Eric Lau and MC Zani |
| Lighting | Benji Reid and Lee Grey |
| Jay | Emmanuel Akwafo |
| Archie | KM Drew Boateng |
| Tom | George Bray |
| Matt | Marcquelle Ward |
| Yawo | Jason York |
| Production Manager | Dan Rainsford |
| Stage Manager | Erik Perera |
| Technical Stage Manager | Lee Grey |
| Participation Director | Miranda Cromwell |
| Marketing | Sam McAuley |
| Press | The Corner Shop PR |
For Fuel
Louise Blackwell, Angie Bual, David Cahill Roots,
Rebecca Cahill Roots, Natalie Dibsdale, Ed Errington,
Bridget Floyer, Hattie Gregory, Stuart Heyes, Kate McGrath,
Emilie Rolland, Hannah Slimmon and Nikki Smith.
Founded in 2004 and led by Louise Blackwell and Kate
McGrath, Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous
audiences by inspiring artists. Fuel is currently working
with Andy Smith, Clod Ensemble, Fevered Sleep, David
Rosenberg, Inua Ellams, Melanie Wilson, Racheal Ofori,
Sound&Fury, Tom Stuart, Tortoise in a Nutshell, Uninvited
Guests, Will Adamsdale and Melly Still, Gyre & Gimble
and Lewis Gibson. Fuel receives National Portfolio Funding
from Arts Council England.
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