Kirklees Council presents Dear Laila for Refugee Week

“Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.”

The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter Laila began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there, he decided he would try to bring the place to her, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

Dear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Using retelling of memories and tactile details, it explores how war and exile are experienced through the everyday, the domestic, and the public space – to bring this now destroyed place to life.

Credits:

Commissioned by Good Chance Theatre, with support from Arts Council England
Translator and script editor: Emily Churchill Zaraa
Sound engineer: Pete Churchill
Photo credit: Mohab Mohamed

This production in Kirklees for Refugee Week commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.

Venues, timings and booking arrangements to be confirmed.