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'THE BUNDLE' & 'FEEDING THE DARKNESS'

Renfield St Stephens Centre
Glasgow United Kingdom

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'THE BUNDLE' & 'FEEDING THE DARKNESS'

'THE BUNDLE'

Based closely on the story of a real woman and her three young
children, The Bundle follows Adilahs domestic persecution and
denial of human rights in Chechnya. Removed from her Russian homeland by her Chechen father, abducted into a forced marriage and then subjected to a life of servitude, she takes the ultimate risk in plotting her escape to the UK.

Here she finds a home but also encounters the Home Offices
hostile environment with regard to asylum seekers and refugees. The play moves from the tradition of the folk story to that of biting satire as it charts Adilahs bid for freedom, safety and
hope.

The Bundle is commissioned by QARN Quaker Asylum
Seeker and Refugee Network.

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'FEEDING THE DARKNESS'

Art Thou in Darkness? Mind it not for if thou dost, it will fill thee more...

James Naylor (17th century Quaker)

This 65 minute performance is a result of extensive research into the dark world of state-sanctioned torture and its stark impact on victims, perpetrators, families and those who collude in the process.

Immersive in style, Feeding the Darkness frames verbatim and faction monologues, duologues and poetry as a series of ministries which challenge our ignorance and avoidance of this sensitive and disturbing subject.

It features such wide-ranging material as the experiences of the mother of Private Lynddie England (court-martialed for her role in the abuse of Abu Ghraib detainees), that of a Kurdish asylum seeker at an appeal tribunal, and the role of trained medical professionals in state-sanctioned torture, amongst many others.

Feeding the Darkness both iterates the Quaker position on torture and encourages us to examine how the UN Convention Against Torture (1965) Article 1 is clearly being abused by UK and world-wide governments.

This production has been commissioned by Q-CAT (Quaker Concern for the Abolition of Torture)