Glitterball

More Bassey than Bhangra...

Sonia’s life has always been a bit of a double act, brought up as one half of a Shirley Bassey tribute act. Alongside her overbearing mother Gloria, she left a trail of sequins across the working men’s clubs of East Anglia.

Now she’s divorced, battling through the middle-age jungle, wrangling unimpressed teenagers and navigating rocky friendships.

But the arrival of her half-brother Naim brings a refreshed sense of belonging and cultural identity, and she begins to piece together the mosaic of her life. Can Sonia shake off the past, even with her ever-present mother keeping ’the show’ on the road from beyond the grave?

Glitterball is a play with live music, wry humour and a whole lotta sparkle. This edition was published to coincide with the first run produced by Rifco Theatre and Watford Palace Theatre at Watford Palace
Theatre, in September 2022.

Yasmin Wilde is a writer. Yasmin grew up in Cambridgeshire and now lives in Cornwall with her family and dog. She is an actress of dual heritage (Pakistani/Austrian) and has been performing for over thirty years in British theatre and TV, with a break to have her children. As an actor she has been lucky enough to work with some of our best British Asian writers including Tanika Gupta and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and has performed at Watford twice - once in Gupta’s version of ＂A Country Wife＂ and then in Kaur Bhatti’s one woman show ＂Fourteen＂. Yasmin has always harboured a desire to write for the stage, and has a drawer at home full of ideas, plays and musicals in various states of completion.