A new half day TIE programme – 2 hours long built around a new 50 minute play. For years 9 upwards.

In the past four years, hundreds of detained asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike in protest against what they perceive as gross injustice. Some have refused food for as long as 40 days in protest against the deplorable medical care and conditions.

Why are people driven to such desperate acts?

Charities nationally and here in the West Midlands have become increasingly concerned about destitution amongst asylum seeking and refugee children. The Children’s Society was concerned by these reports and in 2007 initiated research to find out more about why children were becoming destitute and what this meant for their lives. The findings were stark: children growing up in households without food, heating or toys, mothers forced to prostitute themselves to survive, young people in care cut off from any help at 18 becoming homeless, and pregnant women who cannot afford to eat or access healthcare.

How does society turn a blind eye to their situation? What is there to fear from them?

All of Me has been commissioned for a TIE programme designed for young people aged 13+ in the autumn of 2010; a year of work Big Brum has dedicated to young people on the margins of society in the UN year of Youth and the EU year of combating poverty and social exclusion.

What happens when human beings become objectified as the 'other'? This is a story about the alien and the alienated.

The programme will be touring schools from October to December 2010.

To book, or for more information, please contact:
Claire Procter, Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, Pegasus Infant and Junior School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6PR.
Tel: 0121 4644607 Mob: 07736 324818 Fax: 0121 4644605 E-mail: claire@bigbrum.plus.com