THEATRE

An Evening with an Immigrant

By Inua Ellams

Venue

Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint

Dates

19–20 Aug 2026

Time

6:45pm · 85min

Price

Free

Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams, born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered to be Boko Haram territory, left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12. Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, Inua tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant-story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, finding friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or a place to call home. This will be a special stripped-back version of the hit Fringe show.