Acting as a soft launch for his first season in charge of the Royal Court, David Byrne (not that one) offers up a short run for a show that had previously played at his former venue, the New Diorama:
Dugsi Dayz is Sabrina Ali's twist on
The Breakfast Club, replacing a group of 20th century American High School archetypes with four 21st century teenage Somali-British girls who've been made to do an hour's Saturday detention at their mosque, as punishment for haram acts they're not actually obliged to tell each other about, thank you very much. The characters don't have
exact parallels with the John Hughes film, so it would be labouring the point a bit to make them. But let's do that anyway. Munira (Ali) and Yasmin (Faduma Issa) are the Emilio Estevez / Molly Ringwald cool kids, friends who can't seem to do anything without the other filming it for TikTok.
