lives in translation
Written By: Rosemary Jenkinson
Directed By: Paula McFetridge
Production Premiere: October 2017
Lives in Translation is a powerful production that celebrates the human survival instinct through the story of one woman; who in fleeing the conflict of her home becomes trapped in a different form of struggle. She is trapped within the suffocating bureaucracy surrounding immigration.
Written by Rosemary Jenkinson and based on interviews with female Somali refugees and asylum seekers, local support workers, and community organisations; this poignant drama explores how recent migrants are forced to navigate support systems through translation.
Lives in Translation highlights how dis-empowering and frustrating this system can be, and ultimately how time is controlled most by those it affects least.
The story follows Asha’s ten-year journey through Mogadishu, Dublin, Belfast and London, as she fights for a life free from constant fear and a place to make home.
The premiere was staged in an old warehouse full of container lorries, it was re-imagined for a series of performances in regional courthouses and finally revived for touring to theatres.
CREATIVE TEAM
Cast:
Various: Tony Flynn
Various: Julie Maxwell
Asha: Raquel McKee
Crew:
Production Manager: Damian Cox
Community Liaison Officer: Bobbi Rai Purdy
Producers: Dominic Montague and Kathy Young
Set Designer: Stuart Marshall
AV / Video Designer: Conan McIvor
Costume Designer: Liz Cullinane
Sound designer / Composer: Dónal O’Connor
Choreographer: Sandy Cuthbert
Dialect Coach: Brendan Gunn
Technical Stage Manager: Chris Fitzpatrick
Deputy Stage Manager: Seána Green
PAST PERFORMANCES
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27th February – 13th March:Ballywalter Presbyterian Church; Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Dublin; Axis Theatre, Ballymun, Dublin;
Lyric Theatre, Belfast; An Tain, Dundalk; Marketplace Theatre, Armagh; Playhouse, Derry;
Droichead, Drogheda; and Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady.
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2017
25th October - 4th November
S13, Boucher Road, Belfast (the former B&Q Warehouse), as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.
Downpatrick Courthouse
Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards
Dungannon Courthouse
Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry
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