Refugee Boy - 11-13.02.14

Refugee Boy – 11-13.02.14

A powerful production about arriving, belonging and finding home by poets Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay. Alem is fourteen, in London with his father on the best holiday he has ever had, but then the unthinkable happens; he awakes to find himself alone, a stranger in an unfamiliar country. Overnight, he has become a refugee. As a violent civil war rages back home, Alem's Ethiopian father and Eritrean mother make the heartbreaking decision to leave him in London.

Amidst this turmoil Alem determines to take control, to transcend his refugee label, to become Alem Kelo – an African, a Peacemaker and no longer just a Refugee Boy.

Playhouse Associate Director Gail McIntyre brings together the work of two of the UK's most prolific and revered poets, Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay, in a heartbreaking production that pulses with energy, love, loss and hope.

'Sissay weaves in poetry, laughter and, as the sky beyond the ruins clears to starlight, moments of awe.' **** (The Times)

Don't miss the Pre-show talk with Lemn Sissay and Benjamin Zephaniah lasting 40 minutes. Freeat Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 11 February at 18:00 pm.  

Date: Tuesday 11 February 2014 - Thursday 13 February 2014

Time: 19:30 pm (GMT)

Location: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Tickets: £15 (adults) £7.50 (children) £5 (11am schools performances) + booking fee. Click here to book tickets