An Evening with an Immigrant

By Inua Ellams

Presented by Fuel

Wednesday 19, Thursday 20 & Friday 21 August: 6.45pm

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, reimagined for Shedinburgh.

• Theatre
• £13.50
• 19-21 August 2026
• 60 minutes
• Shedinburgh @ Assembly Checkpoint
• Age 12 + (Guideline)
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  Includes themes of immigration and displacement, which may be triggering for people with relevant lived experience.