Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with
groups of secondary school children, this collection examines
immigration to and emigration from the UK. A theatre-in-education
project coordinated by Tamasha theatre company and The Migration Museum,
children worked on exercises designed to develop their understanding of,
and feelings about, migration. Their reactions were then incorporated
into a piece of theatre by a professional playwright that the students
then performed. This collection brings together these plays along with
the unique exercises that inspired them. The plays include:
Nothing to Declare by Sharmila Chauhan follows three precious
keepsakes and the stories attached to them as their owners are stopped
at a hostile border.
Potato Moon by Satinder Chohan focuses on the potatoes buried in a
share allotment. They become people's memories in a magical realist
Southall and so when they start to go missing, schoolgirl Mira set out
to find out why.
Wilkommen by Asif Khan follows 11 year Ammar on the most dangerous
journey of his life, from war-torn country, across sea and land, to take
up the offer of a new life in Europe.
Jigsaw by Sumerah Srivstav tells the story of how three angels,
horrified by mankind's cruelty, prepare to wipe them out... until they
find an unlikely friend who changes their mind.
This is an invaluable collection that gives both teachers the resources
to address the sometimes tricky issues surrounding migration and
students the opportunity to create and in doing so counteract and
humanize the narratives hear in the media and society as a whole.
