Two Billion Beats
Cast: 2f (playing age 15 and 17)
Staging: Multiple locations (can be simply staged)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
10 Feb 2022Size: 198mm x 129mm
10 Feb 2022
Two Billion Beats
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Seventeen-year-old Asha is a rebel, inspired by historical revolutionaries and unafraid of pointing out the hypocrisy around her – but less sure how to actually dismantle it. Her younger sister, Bettina, wide-eyed and naive, is just trying to get through the school day without having her pocket money nicked.
With essays to write, homework to do, and bus journeys home, the two sisters meet every afternoon, outside the school gates, to tackle the injustice of the world.
Sonali Bhattacharyya's play Two Billion Beats is an insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life. It was originally presented in the Inside/Outside season, livestreamed from the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, before receiving a production there in this full-length version in 2022, directed by Nimmo Ismail.
Also available: an earlier version of the play, performed as part of the Orange Tree's Inside/Outside season, livestreamed in 2021, published in the volume Inside/Outside: Six short plays.
'The smaller you are, the quicker your heart beats. But it doesn't matter what size your heart is, we all only get an average of about two billion beats over our lifetime. It's just a pump at the end of the day, right?'
'In Bhattacharyya's entertaining play, two teenage sisters negotiate the battlefield of school while learning about the political battlefields of the past'
The Stage on Two Billion Beats as part of Inside/Outside'A bold, passionate play about family conflict and the legacy of historic ideologies... Bhattacharyya's dialogue is beautifully nuanced'
LondonTheatre1Cast: 2f (playing age 15 and 17)
Staging:Multiple locations (can be simply staged)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
10 Feb 2022Size: 198mm x 129mm
10 Feb 2022
