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Matilda Feyisayo Ibini draws on her own journey of sharing life with LGMD, in a whirlwind of 90s pop, video games and the joy of having sisters. Little Miss Burden is her most recent award winning stage drama, reimagined for her Radio 4 debut.

Big Sis, Little Sis and Little Miss are inseparable, the coolest, fiercest, most super talented-est girl band ever assembled. At 13, Little Miss is given a gift which cannot be returned. It’s a part of her. She has to share her body and life with it. And she needs to find a way for the two of them to get along as they can’t both be Player One.

This coming-of-age tale smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up with a physical impairment.

Matilda Feyisayo Ibini is an award-winning bionic, queer playwright, screenwriter and (occasional) facilitator from London (a Nigerian Londoner if you will). She has Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and is a wheelchair user. Her work often centres women, disabled people, queer people and the Black British experience through a magical realist lens.

Her debut play, Muscovado for BurntOut Theatre, premiered in October 2014. Muscovado subsequently co-won the Alfred Fagon Audience Award 2015. The Grape that Rolled Under the Fridge was broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 in 2019. Little Miss Burden premiered at the Bunker Theatre in 2019, was a finalist for an OffWestEnd Award for Best New Play and won a Popcorn Finalist Award.

Co-producer Debbie Hannan's forthcoming stage productions include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Cast:
Little Miss…………………………… Saida Ahmed
Lil Sis………………………………….Ani Nelson
Big Sis…………………………………Ewa Dina
Mum………………….……………….Diana Yekinni

Co-Directors ………………………..Polly Thomas and Debbie Hannan
Illustration……………………………Geroff My Visuals
Sound Recordist……………………John Merriman, Crown Lane Studios
Sound Designer……………………..Alisdair McGregor

Thanks to dramaturg Jules Howarth.

Executive Producer………………….Eloise Whitmore

A Naked production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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