Story of a refugee boy in Australian detention centre to be staged at the Theatre Royal
The cast of 'The Bone Sparrow'. Photo: msc1photography.
A moving story about a Rohingya refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre in Australia is to be staged at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds in the next few days.
“The Bone Sparrow” is being staged by Pilot Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday, March 8 to 12, is directed by their artistic director Esther Richardson and offers patrons the ability to purchase two for one tickets.
Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland.
Life behind the fences is all he has ever known. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world.
One night, Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family’s mysterious and moving history.
Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before.
The cast will feature Yaamin Chowdhury as Sushi and Mary Roubos as Jimmie, along with Elmi Rashid Elmi, Jum Faruq, Kiran L Dadlani, Siobhan Athwal, Devesh Kishore and Mackenzie Scott.
To book tickets go to the box office Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, telephone 01284 769505 or go to the website www.theatreroyal.org