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Sonja Linden

Crocodile Seeking Refuge

This play tells the stories of five individuals seeking asylum in the UK: Zakariya from Darfur; Destin from the Republic of Congo; Jalal from Iraq; Parvaneh from Iran and Marie-Elena from Colombia. Each has been forced to flee their homeland in the face of death, each is haunted in a different way by the past. Finding themselves in situations that veer between the comic and the tragic, they try to make sense of the British way of life.
“Scars are like medals. They show we have taken part in the life.”
Inspired by the real life testimony of people who have sought refuge in the UK, ‘Crocodile Seeking Refuge’ is an incisive look at the asylum stories behind the headlines.
83 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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Quotes

  • Алина Лепёшкинаhas quoted3 years ago
    She wouldn’t touch me because prisoners who refused to follow Islam were considered ‘najes’, or unclean, so she led me through the corridors by a stick.
  • Алина Лепёшкинаhas quoted3 years ago
    We must fight back with our bodies as well as our minds. I think you are someone who only lives in her head, is no good.
  • Алина Лепёшкинаhas quoted3 years ago
    come here to the UK to escape persecution and they put me in prison! I made the same mistake as the crocodile that tries to escape from the rain. You know this story?

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