#FinboroughForFree: Scrounger
by Athena Stevens
by Athena Stevens
Scrounger, a new play by Athena Stevens, explores the challenges faced by a successful online personality whose life is upended when an airline destroys her wheelchair, highlighting systemic failures in Britain regarding justice for the vulnerable.
About The Play
About The Play
Returns to the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel due to popular demand. Available 5-17 January 2021, click here to watch now.
An audio-described introduction is also available, here.
FINALIST – OffWestEnd Award Nomination for Best New Play – Athena Stevens
FINALIST – OffWestEnd Award for Best Director (Play) – Lily McLeish
FINALIST – OffWestEnd Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Play – Leigh Quinn
To read all about the original Finborough Theatre production of Scrounger, please click here.
The first production of the Finborough Theatre’s 40th anniversary year, the world premiere of Finborough Theatre Playwright in Residence and Olivier Award nominee Athena Stevens’s new play.
On the streets of Elephant and Castle, everyone likes to make speculations about Scrounger. She needs help, she must not be aware of the complexities of the world, she is sent from the demons to torture her mum… at least according to her Nigerian Uber driver.
Scrounger doesn’t care. A successful online personality, she’s got more power from her bedroom than anyone on the Southwark estates could dream of. She’s educated, she’s ballsy, and with a huge network of online allies, Scrounger is a woman who knows how to make change happen.
That is, until an airline destroys her wheelchair.
Inspired by real events and a lawsuit initiated by Stevens herself, Scrounger drives towards the realities of how Britain is failing its most vulnerable and the extreme cost paid by those seeking justice.
Originally seen as part of Vibrant 2019 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, Scrounger now received its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in January 2020.