In Conversation with Ruth D’Silva

Thu 20 Feb 2025

Written by Ruth D'Silva

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Theatre503 Writers’ Programme: In Conversation with Ruth D’Silva

This will be a chance to meet Ruth D’Silva and find out more about their upcoming play, Bungalow, at Theatre503. Ruth will be in conversation with Theatre503’s Literary Manager, Steve Harper. This will be followed by a question and answer session where you can ask your own questions.

Date: Thursday 20 February 2025

Time: 7 – 8pm

Running time: 1 hour – delivered online via Zoom.

Ruth D'Silva

Ruth D’Silva is an emerging, working-class, Anglo-Indian writer living in South London. As a person of dual heritage her blood runs with the colonised and the coloniser, giving her a unique drive to bring people together and contemplate through the lens of drama how a difficult colonial history makes us love in places that don't love us back. Ruth won an MGCfutures bursary to adapt the classic colonial novel BLACK NARCISSUS in which she flips the perspective from the colonisers to the colonised. The play is now in development and had an R&D at the Donmar Warehouse in July 2024. Ruth was shortlisted for the RSC 37 Plays Folio and is an alumni of the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting group, Soho Theatre Labs and the School of HighTide. She has also received a seed commission from Tara Theatre. Ruth is delighted that BUNGALOW is programmed at Theatre503 in 2025.