This account of one family’s escape from Afghanistan to the UK puts a much-needed human face on the refugee crisis. It’s a simple, almost child-friendly piece of storytelling, adapted by Phil Porter from the autobiographical book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri, who’d never written before.
The titular boy is their late, older sibling Hussein, who was born with a heart condition but became a focal point for the family’s strength. Amit Sharma’s lively, warm but unsubtle production comes to the National from the Wales Millennium Centre: the Amiri family fetched up in Cardiff.
