Fierce … from left, Emily Spowage as Andrea Dunbar and Lucy Hird as her younger self,
Claire-Marie Seddon and Balvinder Sopal. 
Photograph: Tim Smith

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile review – last orders for Andrea Dunbar

Ambassador, Bradford
At the pub, the night before her untimely death, the acclaimed playwright spars with her younger self in this tender adaptation of Adelle Stripe’s novel

Catherine Love
Monday 3 June 2019

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ndrea Dunbar’s legacy reads like those of so many who lived intensely and died young. Almost 30 years after her death, she’s remembered as much for her turbulent life as she is for her brilliant and brutally honest plays.

Theatre / Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe

 

Bringing Andrea Dunbar back home – Lisa Holdsworth, Adelle Stripe and Kash Arshad. 

Photo: Tom Woollard

THEATRE | Interview 

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile

As new play Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile comes to the Yorkshire stage, ADELLE STRIPE, LISA HOLDSWORTH and KASH ARSHAD talk to ANNA CALE about taking Andrea Dunbar’s work back to her community.

10 May 2019

A new play about the life of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, staged by Bradford based Freedom Studios, is about to open. Adapted from Adelle Stripe’s non-fiction novel of the same name by screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth and directed by Kash Arshad, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile tells the story of Dunbar’s chaotic life on the Buttershaw estate in Bradford, as she struggles to write her latest work while battling her demons.