Roadkill heads to New York next summer for US premiere

Roadkill , the Olivier award-winning site-specific play about human trafficking, will receive its American premiere next summer in New York. Three years after its debut at the Edinburgh fringe , Stef Smith's play will be restaged by the Brooklyn-based theatre St Ann's Warehouse in an off-site location, described as "a benign-looking Brooklyn apartment." Directed by Scottish actor-director Cora Bissett , Roadkill begins on a bus and drives its audience to a house, supposedly being used as a brothel. The audience follows the story of Mary, a 13-year-old Nigerian girl, who is forced to work as a prostitute after leaving the country of her birth. After its successful Edinburgh run, where it won an array of awards and acclaim, Roadkill transferred to London, co-produced by the Barbican and Stratford East. The production won an Olivier award for achievement in an affiliate theatre in April . St Ann's Warehouse will also host Kneehigh Theatre for a second time, following the transfer – and subsequent Broadway run – of the Cornish company's staging of Brief Encounter. The Wild Bride , a Grimm fairytale adaptation seen at Battersea Arts Centre last year, will play at the company's new space, a former industrial warehouse, from 23 February. Other season highlights at St Ann's include Kneehigh actor Tristan Sturrock's solo show Mayday Mayday and this year's Edinburgh fringe smash hit Mies Julie , Yael Farber's South African-set adaptation of August Strindberg's classic, which opens the new venue in November.