Two migrant sisters Riya and Nikita navigate the increasingly authoritarian island where they live in wildly different ways – both insecure, stateless and desperate for somewhere to call ‘home’ Riya is offered the chance to create an advocate in the form of a homunculus, or fawn and sees a chance to elevate herself above the […]

Four people come together in a house in a forest for a political debate which will feature two of them as adversaries. Mehrosh is a celebrated activist, made terrified from constant death threats. This debate is a chance to make her voice heard.  Bina is her opponent – a smart, sophisticated politician from the ruling […]

Their Period is an answer to the question – What would it look like to queer a period party? Tamil period parties are ceremonies for people who’ve just started their periods. The event signals survival and post-genocide stability but it can also be rooted in a colonial denial of transness. Back to the Bone is […]

The enigmatic, indefinable Noor Inayat Khan was an unlikely recruit to the SOE as an undercover wireless operator. How did she face off Fascism with such courage and resilience and evade capture longer than any of her counterparts? Noor’s moving and inspirational story takes us across borders and time into a shadowy world of espionage, […]

HOME was a week of script-in-hand performances of five cutting-edge new plays exploring, challenging and reimagining our idea of ‘home’. HOME was performed at Tara Arts. Four established playwrights alongside an innovative writer from our DISCOVERY programme ask what it means to call Britain ‘home’ in 2021 from the unique perspective of female writers with […]

Young Afghan refugee Saeed desperately wants to reconnect with his roots and find his long-lost sister. So he leaves his adoptive family in London and returns home to Kabul to work as a doctor, eager to contribute to rebuilding a new Afghanistan. But here past and present collide and Saeed must face up to the […]

KALI DISCOVERIES Sisters and Secrets; Coming Out and Coming Clean! Script-in-hand performances of four striking short plays by newly discovered talented South Asian women writers Chip Butty Chapati by Martha Pothen provides a funny, warm hearted depiction of a dual heritage mother and daughter relationship Halima by Sabiha Mank takes an unsettling look at the […]