Winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievment In An Affiliate Theatre. A world away from you, but a world right on your doorstep. A powerful story of the terrifying complexities of sex trafficking today based on real experiences. Moving away from generalised narrative accounts of trafficked women, this explosive, site-specific production combines direct, chilling performances with video and animation. RoadKill exposes the brutal and hidden truth behind the newspaper headlines as audiences share in the intimate, harrowing details of a young woman trapped in a living nightmare. “Brutal and compelling… be warned this is as uncomfortable a night in the theatre as you’re ever likely to get” – Evening Standard “Intended to raise awareness of child sex trafficking rings and thus has the single-minded focus of issue led-drama. But it is also excellent” – Metro “How to recommend a play that makes an ashen-faced wreck of you? My advice is see Roadkill but take someone along to scrape you off the floor afterwards.” – Sunday Times “Brutal and compelling… be warned this is as uncomfortable a night in the theatre as you’re ever likely to get” – Evening Standard “Intended to raise awareness of child sex trafficking rings and thus has the single-minded focus of issue led-drama. But it is also excellent” – Metro “How to recommend a play that makes an ashen-faced wreck of you? My advice is see Roadkill but take someone along to scrape you off the floor afterwards.” – Sunday Times Cora Bissett is an award-winning actor and theatre director, who trained at the RoyalScottish Academy of Music and Drama. Having worked widely as an actress for 14 years, she attained the Arches Award for Directors in 2009 and devised her debut production Amada which toured nationally. She launched her own company, Pachamama Productions in 2010, for which Roadkill was the flagship production. As an actress, she recently filmed the 9th and 10th series of Rab C. Nesbitt for the Comedy Unit/BBC, played in David Mackenzies 2011 feature You Instead and also recently starred in the international tour of Midsummer, for which she won the 2009 Stage Best Actress Award and will go on to open at Sydney Opera House in January 2012. Originally from a small village near Stirling in Scotland, Stef Smith studied Drama and Theatre Arts (with a specialism in directing) at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Stef has worked as both an individual artist and with other theatre makers. Her work is predominately political seeking to unearth unheard stories and it always aims to examine both the lightness and darkness of life. Stef loves traveling and in the past few years she has visited Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Korea, Mexico, Turkey and the USA for her work. Stef has also led creative writing groups for young people in India, ran writing workshops in Brazil and given lectures at Glasgow University. Most notably in 2012 Stef won an Olivier for the show RoadKill. In 2013 she was invited for a residency to the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. She also appeared on The Lists Top 100 Cutural Contributors for 2015 and was named by the Independent as a part of a 'new generation of British playwrights who will dominate 2017'. She is also an Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and at Leeds Playhouse. In 2020, she was a finalist for the world's biggest prize for female playwrights.