No Guts, No Heart, No Glory - (Oberon Modern Plays) by Aisha Zia (Paperback)

About the Book

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory explores being young, fearless and doing the unexpected.

Book Synopsis

We are sick of it, being ignored

We are sick of it, being indoors

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory explores being young, fearless and doing the unexpected. Working closely with five 16-22-year-old Muslim women and former National Champion boxer Ambreen Sadiq. This play represents a young Muslim female experience of life in the UK. It speaks to young people and will make them feel braver and encourage them to live how they want to live, so that they are free and confident to make their own choices tomorrow.

'Common Wealth are an award-winning, Bradford-based company who make site-specific theatre events that are political and contemporary - based in the present day - the here and now. Our ideas are rooted in socialist politics, working class backgrounds, a keen interest in contemporary music/theatre/art/design, the people that we meet and an idealistic ambition to shift things. We see our plays as campaigns, a way of bringing people together and making change feel possible.

Aisha Zia is a playwright based in the UK. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (plays and screenplays) at City University, London. No Guts, No Heart, No Glory is her fourth full-length play. Aisha worked with Common Wealth on her adaptation An Indecent Incident from A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoevsky and wrote text for Our Glass House, a play which explored domestic abuse and toured disused houses around the UK from 2012- 2013.

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory was winner of the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2014 and was shortlisted for Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award in the same year'.

About the Author

Aisha Zia is a writer and producer based in London and Bradford. She worked with Common Wealth on her first full-length play An Indecent Incident. She went on to complete her second full-length play, The Fox and the Libertine, gaining a distinction on her MA in Creative Writing at City University. Aisha was included in the 'Ave It' writers line up at the Old Vic Tunnels for the Coming Up Later Festival sponsored by Ideas Tap. She has worked as a researcher to Colin Teevan, an Intern at HighTide, and completed the Critical Mass Artist Development Programme at the Royal Court. Her first short film documentary Ridley Road was part of the East End Film Festival in 2011. Aisha worked as a writer on Our Glass House. She is also the Deputy Photo Editor for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine.