Chaos Casino by Bridie Squires
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Friday 13th June
Saturday 14th June
7.45pm - 9pm
Nottingham Playhouse - Wellington Circus, Nottingham NG1 5AF
Join us at the Chaos Casino, a variety show packed with true stories, audience games, and spoken word poetry with a loop station twist. Be swept along on a conveyor belt of increasingly overwhelming antics, exploring the line between innocent play and gambling harm.
Raising awareness of the negative impacts of gambling industry practices, Chaos Casino is inspired by two years of night shifts working as a croupier and highlights the social issues of gambling culture, through the eyes of a writer from Nottingham.
Chaos Casino is supported by GamLEARN, a lived experience network for people who have been impacted directly or indirectly from gambling related harm.
Director and Dramaturg: Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie
Sound Consultant: Rob Green
About Bridie Squires
Bridie Squires is a poet, playwright, producer and performance artist from Nottingham. Previously journalist and editor at LeftLion Magazine, she was appointed Nottingham Trent University’s first Writer in Residence in 2019, and founded Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS in 2020. Bridie was Producer for Nottingham Poetry Festival and Young Creative Awards, and is Production Manager at British Gestalt Journal. A Mouthy Poets alumnus, she has performed her poetry in Southbank Centre, London, Badisches Staatstheatre, Karlsruhe, and We Out Here Festival, Cambridge. Bridie has performed alongside Lemn Sissay, Holly McNish, Henry Normal, Yomi Ṣode and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
