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Islington Tribune - by TOM FOOT
Published: 30 January 2009

Actress backs theatre’s sex-trafficking exposé

OSCAR-winner Emma Thompson is to speak out against the horrors of sex trafficking at a Holloway theatre.
The actor and screenwriter has lent her high-profile support to the premiere of Fair Trade, a play at the Pleasance Theatre based on real-life accounts of the sex-trafficking business.
The play was written by Shelley Davenport and Anna Holbeck, who worked as a production assistant on the film Brideshead Revisited with Ms Thompson.
The star of Harry Potter and Sense and Sensibility, who chairs human rights organisation The Helen Bamber Foundation, leapt at the chance to get involved.
Describing it as one of the best scripts she had seen in years, Ms Thompson said: “It is a dynamic and visceral piece of theatre. Sex trafficking is a hugely important subject, and I believe we need as much art as we can get to help people understand what’s going on out there.”
Ms Thompson will lead a question-and-answer session after the play’s opening night at the Carpenters Mews theatre on Wednesday. Tickets are available on 020 7609 1800.
Front page picture: from left, Anna Holbeck, Emma Thompson and Shelley Davenport outside the theatre this week.

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