"This is the story of a small girl pursued by a strange wind."

Growing from this sentence, this devised performance piece began workshops in November 2009, working with an all female cast of actors, writers, and musicians.

May 1 & 2 at 2pm,
At MUSA, the museum on the scores.
Free event, collecting for the STAND anti-genocide campaign.

Revolving around the interior worlds of... [read more]

"This is the story of a small girl pursued by a strange wind."

Growing from this sentence, this devised performance piece began workshops in November 2009, working with an all female cast of actors, writers, and musicians.

May 1 & 2 at 2pm,
At MUSA, the museum on the scores.
Free event, collecting for the STAND anti-genocide campaign.

Revolving around the interior worlds of refugees and the plight of child smuggling, this piece aims to raise money for charity and lead into an audience discussion about the place of narrative in political violence. This is not a piece about politics--it's seeks only to explore the human condition--but it cannot help being political.

The characters are a refugee (Lilian Schiffer), her mother (Zoe Zawada), the smuggling coyote (Lenore Bell), a woman who has lost her family and displaced that love onto the gun they left her (Hannah Freiman), an aid worker who can only reach this world through her telephone (Didi Wambugu), the literal figurehead of the metaphorical Ship of State (Diana Kurakina), and a silent character who only sings and plays the violin (Zoe Lawrence).

Writing featured of various St Andrews students (Taylor Wallace, Lenore Bell, Brian Sonia-Wallace, and the cast). Influences include George Luis Borges, the Indian poet Mirabai, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, and Cirque Du Soleil.

Directed by Brian Sonia-Wallace. A Tabula Rasa Production.