Going Through
by Estelle Savasta and translated by Kirsten Hazel Smith
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About
A Bush Theatre co-production with the Institut français du Royaume Uni as part of its Cross Channel Theatre and En Scène! programmes
Writer and director Estelle Savasta runs ‘Hippolyte a mal au cœur’, a company creating ground-breaking bilingual work based in France. Her first play Seule dans ma peau d’âne received acclaim at the 2008 Molières awards. Going Through (originally Traversée) is her second play.
“It’s not always children’s stories that happen to children.”
When the men come to drive her away, Youmna cuts off Nour’s hair. And so begins one girl’s journey. By bus, by lorry, into the sound of gun-shots, through adolescence and across borders. All she can take with her is a little box and her memories of Youmna, the woman who raised her.
Going Through is a bold and visually thrilling production about the journeys child migrants take and the loved ones they leave behind. From Omar Elerian, director of acclaimed West End hit Misty, this production is for deaf and hearing audiences and combines English, BSL and Creative Captioning.
Going Through is the UK premiere of Estelle Savasta‘s critically acclaimed French play Traversée and is translated by Kirsten Hazel Smith.
“This gently uplifting play about child migration – performed in English and beautifully signed – delights in language”
★★★★
Guardian
“A delicate and moving coming-of-age story”
★★★★
Time Out
“An intricately woven and affectingly performed story about the pain of forced relocation and separation”
★★★★
The Stage
“tender, humour-filled”
★★★★
WhatsOnStage
“A fleshed out narrative of sacrifice, womanhood and identity”
★★★★
Theatre Full Stop
“A delicate study of human emotion and relationships”
★★★★
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