Dear Home Office

An appeal to those in power, uniquely created and performed by a group of eight refugee young men, their female Key Worker and the company.

The boys arrived in the UK as children from Afghanistan, Albania, Eritrea and Somalia. Searching for safety. Without their families. Holding on to their hopes and dreams for the future. They play versions of themselves on stage, offering a window into their world and the challenges they are now facing – navigating immigration and asylum interviews, assessments to prove their age, fitting in at college, buying coats for an English winter and learning to live alongside each other in Local Authority Care.

With the number of unaccompanied minors arriving in the UK on the rise, and the vast majority of them male, these brave boys take to the stage in response to the current refugee crisis. Using a backdrop of intimate film footage, live music, spoken word, physical theatre and comedy, they reveal their hidden stories.

“Ragged but essential theatre” - Lyn Gardner
“Bloody brilliant” - Mark Thomas
“Heartwarming, educational and humorous” - The Stage
“Vivid and touching” - The List
“One of the best examples of art for a cause” - Three Weeks
“Tells us more in a short hour than we could learn from standard news bulletins in months” - The Scotsman
Nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016