Toy Plastic Chicken. Image shows from L to R: Neshla Caplan, David James Kirkwood
Toy Plastic Chicken

Toy Plastic Chicken

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC Scotland
  • 2019
  • 1 episode

Play set around an airport security check. Stars Neshla Caplan, David James Kirkwood and Anna Russell-Martin.

Toy Plastic Chicken. Image shows from L to R: Anna Russell-Martin, David James Kirkwood

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2019
Channel
BBC Scotland
Episodes
1
Stars
Neshla Caplan, David James Kirkwood and Anna Russell-Martin
Writer
Uma Nada-Rajah
Company

At a Scottish airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. The owner is screened for domestic radicalisation and her interrogators push her further and further. Playing the passenger trying to get through airport checks is Neshla Caplan, with David James Kirkwood and Anna Russell-Martin as airport security.

Writer Uma Nada-Rajah based her blackly comedic exploration of degradation and revolt on a real experience. As well as her work as a playwright, she also works as a nurse. Based in Kirknewton, she trained with the acclaimed French theatre school, École Philippe Gaulier, is a graduate of the Young Writers' Program at the Royal Court Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights' Award from Playwrights' Studio Scotland. Her other plays include The Constant K Determines the Ultimate Fate of the Universe and The Dubai Papers. Toy Plastic Chicken is her first work to be showcased on television.

Additional details

Part of

A Play, A Pie & A Pint

Also known as
  • A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Toy Plastic Chicken
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 22nd September 2019 at 10pm on BBC Scotland
Episode length
1 hour
All previous repeats
  • Saturday 3rd July 2021 at 9:30pm on BBC Scotland
  • Sunday 23rd February 2020 at 11:00pm on BBC Scotland

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