The Navigator Project

'Excellent Fishamble... Ireland's terrific Fishamble.' Guardian The Navigator Project explores how marginalisation causes health inequity, and asks whether integrating science, cross-cultural learning and theatre could raise awareness about health inequity in marginalised communities. Commissioned and collected by Fishamble: The New Play Company, this book offers a unique combination of theatre and science, written by playwrights, scientists, policy makers, and healthcare professionals. It presents 10 short plays all exploring different aspects of Health Inequality and Marginalisation, through culture, gender, location, migrant status, or other factors, and the impact on health, or resilience of individuals and communities to deal with these issues. The plays are accompanied by 10 essays by experts in the field of medicine, science, politics, and activism, in response. Often, artists are commissioned to create a response to scientific or medical research, but this book does it the other way around, commissioning artists to write the plays and asking scientists to respond. The 10 plays are full of insight, humanity, and lived experience from a diverse selection of writers, 4 of which were commissioned and 6 chosen from over 220 submissions of plays received by Fishamble. The plays will be performed in theatres and at health conferences, sparking debate. The book will be an invaluable resource to those interested in theatre, science and the crossover between the two.

Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that discovers, develops and produces new plays of national importance with a global reach. It has toured its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and to 21 other countries. It champions the role of the playwright, typically supporting over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble has received many awards in Ireland and internationally, including an Olivier Award.

About Fishamble Biographies Introductions by Jim Culleton & Mark Ledwidge and Joe Gallagher Foreword by Catherine Connolly, President of Ireland Plays and Essays: 1. Postcode Lottery Cells by Ryan Gillespie - essay by Jo-Hanna Ivers Someone Will Die Today by Hannah Khalil - essay by Izzeldin Abuelaish The Back of The Bus by Treasa Nealon - essay by Doireann O'Leary 2. Listen Without Prejudice Ill-defined by Susannah Al Fraihat - essay by Nontobeko Mdliuli and Sarah McErlean Rehearsal by Carys D. Coburn - essay by Ailbhe Smyth Endo by Jade Jordan - essay by Lynn Ruane Assisted by Rosaleen McDonagh - essay by Frances Fitzgerald Doctor Doctor by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns - essay by Donal O'Shea and Ailbhe Rooney 3. Struggle from Within Buckets by Niall Murphy - essay by Luisne Mac Conghail and Sara Burke Within Range by Susan Lynch - essay by Joe Gallagher, Huanhuan Xiong and Mark Ledwidge