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19 February 2025 / Events

The Migrant’s Tale: Voices of the Dispossessed (IN-PERSON BOOKINGS)

In September 2015, the photo of Aylan Kurdi was published in newspapers across the UK and abroad.   The image of this drowned Syrian-Kurdish boy, washed upon on a Turkish beach, triggered a petition to Parliament to accept more refugees.  Yet, in the intervening years, anti-immigrant discourse has profoundly risen.  This talk will consider how theatre addresses the dehumanising representation of migrants as a sub-human swarm, threatening the stability of European society.

I will consider how plays such as Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s The Jungle (2018) shows the resilience of those who, having lost all, try to rebuild a form of civil society.  In contrast, Red Demon (2003) and more recent works consider the fates of migrants in a new land.

Ten years later, at a crucial time in our national debates on migration, might theatre’s emotional connection, as Anders Lustgarten argues, still spark challenge, debate and the possibility of change?

An entertaining look at something theatrical, taking place at St Anne’s Soho. It’s absolutely free and you don’t have to be a member, but it is essential to book to let us know you will either be coming in person or watching via the livestream – there is a handy tickbox to indicate in-person attendance.

Times are in GMT.

Venue information:

St. Anne’s Church, 55 Dean St., London W1D 6AF

Lectures are in the Allen Room, located on the first floor and is accessible via a lift or stairs.

Nearest London Underground stations for  Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road.

The Speaker:

Dr. Valerie Kaneko Lucas is Quality, Standards and Academic Enhancement Manager at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). As a scholar and practitioner, she is   engaged in developing decolonial practice and education.  Current research addresses the questions of theatre as a means for social change, particularly within the post-Empire diaspora and its contemporary theatre and performance.   Her articles on Black British and British Asian performance have appeared in Black British Aesthetics, Reconstructing Hybridity, Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays and Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres.

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Price

Free

Date

19 February 2025

Time

19:30 - 20:30

Venue

St Anne's Soho, Dean Street, London, UK