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A chance encounter on the street with an old enemy brings unexpected results for Robert (Bronson Webb) and Marlon (Michael Lawson). As they try and overcome London's worst Marijuana drought in recent history they realise something weird is going on and it involves their Somali school friend Awat (Abdi Bahdon).
Before I wrote Mash Up I knew that I wanted to base it on one of the many fantastic but true urban stories that I’d either heard of or experienced myself. These true stories included crazy ones from the 1970’s when my very young parents lived in a very violent and racially intolerant Ladbroke Grove, to ones connected to my younger brother, Rene and his stoned circle of 'expelled from school' friends. In the end I settled with Rene’s generation - a generation where both the drugs and violence seemed more potent than in my own.
The two main narratives of Mash Up - Robert visiting his mentally ill friend and Robert getting high and only then realising he’s been stabbed are based on two separate stories that I was immediately attached to. I simply found a way to link the two together and this formed the foundation of Mash Up. Click here to read the notes in full.
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