This production startles not only with its stories of women held captive in the UK’s detention system but through its surprising delivery. Produced by BÉZNĂ Theatre and Roma feminist theatre company, Giuvlipen, the drama is not presented as gritty social realism but with high-wire experimentalism.
There are handheld cameras, voiceovers, a back screen with projected images and scenes interspersed with song. Multiple languages are used to convey the confusions and powerlessness of the women detained inside a detention centre; they are sent official letters they cannot read and given solicitors with whom they cannot communicate.
