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Mud City is a full-day theatre and arts residency day based on the book Mud City from The Breadwinner Trilogy, an extraordinary series of books by award-winning Canadian author Deborah Ellis that look at the stories of young people living in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It follows the fortunes of Afghan refugee Shauzia, as she copes with the difficulties of the Taliban regime, war in her country, a large refugee camp and life on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan, before finally arriving as an asylum seeker in the UK.
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Our production of Mud City is a day-long piece of participatory theatre for Years 5 and 6 (9 and 10 year olds) in primary school, where a team of 2 actor/facilitators, an actor/musician, a visual artist and an actress in-role present parts of Shauzia’s story from Mud City as she travels from Afghanistan to London. The audience are active participants in this incredible journey, using drama, descriptive writing, music, screen-printing and shadow puppetry to recreate Shauzia’s story and to explore how they might resolve the dilemmas faced by children like Shauzia. Our 2008 tour will be presented over 6 weeks to up to 600 children in Years 5 & 6. Salaries & fees: £15,174 Physical Construction: £3,400 Administration & Marketing: £4,556