Flee
TOURED: Jan — Jul 2018
‘Flee’ explores the lives of two lost children whose worlds are in transition: one, a young Syrian refugee and the other, a disruptive child, bullied both at home and school. The play tells their stories in tandem, drawing on the similarities of the characters’ isolation and fights for survival, despite their paths and backgrounds being very different.
“Have you ever felt lost?” ‘Flee’ is a play by local theatre writer Suriya Aisha and was toured by Big Brum in 2018, performed for Key Stage 2, 3 and 4. An evaluation of the play’s effect on the children who saw it was written by Dr Chris Bolton, Senior Lecturer of Drama Education, at Birmingham City University.
