This lively and informal round-table session brings together members of the Syrian artistic community, directors and writers.

Syrian Voices is a collaborative community history project that reaches out to Syrian refugees in the UK and members of the wider community via oral history interviews and collaborative film documentary and theatre projects.

Although UK theatres have been closed during the Pandemic, they continue to play an important role in bringing communities together. Syrian Voices is working in collaboration with Syrian actors and playwrights, The Playground Theatre (London) and The Trojan Women Project (Glasgow) on a series of theatre workshops and short plays in response to the Syrian conflict.

This lively and informal round-table session brings together members of the Syrian artistic community, directors and writers to discuss current theatre projects. The session will examine how response theatre engages and involves marginalised groups and helps to connect and bring communities together in times of crisis.

Chairs:

Mehreen Saigol
Angela Flynn

Participants:

Arwa Omaren – actor from Damascus

Essam Rabbia – actor with En Scripted

Charlotte Eager – Founder of Trojan Women Project

Willy Stirling – The Trojan Women Project & En Scripted

Amanda Waggott & Anthony Biggs – The Playground Theatre, London

Liwaa Yazji – playwright, filmmaker and poet from Syria. Her play Goats was staged at The Royal Court Theatre, London in 2017 to critical acclaim, and her play ‘Q&Q’ premiered at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2016. She is currently developing a drama series about refugees in Berlin.

You will be contacted within 48 hours of the event with the Zoom link for this event. Please be aware tickets will close an hour before the event.