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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

A Grain of Sand review – a child’s eye view of the horror in Gaza

Sarah Agha in A Grain of Sand at Arcola theatre.
Brimming with tales … Sarah Agha in A Grain of Sand at Arcola theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Eleven-year-old Renad dreams of becoming a famous storyteller. She brims with tales of the grandmother who inspired her love of stories, and of the rest of her family, and also of myriad other children who, like her, are living through war, hunger, displacement and terror in Gaza.

This is a beguiling yet deeply disturbing solo show performed by co-deviser Sarah Agha, which builds its drama through multiple young voices, based on verbatim accounts from a booklet compiled by Leila Boukarim and Asaf Luzon called A Million Kites: Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza.

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