




Refugee
Key Theatre, Peterborough, Paines Plough Roundabout, Edinburgh Fringe, 2024
Writer - Aisha Zia
Director - Maisie Newman
Associate Director - Neetu Singh
Lighting Designer - Gillian Tan
Composer and Sound Designer - Jovana Backovic
Choreographer - Seke Chimutengwende
Set & Costume Designer - Charlotte Henery
Voice, Accent & Dialect Coach - Gurkiran Kaur
Production Manager – Carrie Croft
Wellbeing Practitioner - Wabriya King
Stage Manager - Jehan Rizqallah
Artwork and Photography - Kalpesh Lathigra
Communities Producer - Anita Nayyar
Touring Producer - Penny Babakhani
Researcher - Katie Dancey-Downs
Photography - Kalpesh Lathigra
With Adi Detemo, Alaa Shehada, Elina Akhmetova, Sara Diab
Refugee! is a new political, devised theatre piece written by Aisha Zia. Weaving together urgent, important interviews, conversations and real-life testimonies from the performers, migrant, refugee and sanctuary seeking communities.
Set on an ancient burial ground, where the UK is now a crime scene, four characters in search of belonging. Under the rubble they find evidence of hope and humanity, and our own government’s complicity to war crimes.