Since 2014, extreme measures have been put in place in Xinjiang in northwest China, a region that is also known as East Turkestan. Ranging from surveillance and torture to sexual violence and forced sterilisation, these took on more intensity in 2016 with the deployment of Party Secretary Chen Quanguo in the region from Tibet. Reportedly, over a million people have been detained for something as simple as having a foreign app on their mobile phones. Many have disappeared.
The first of its kind, the play adds new insights to their lives before and after periods of incarceration and torture in detention that the state describes as rehabilitation centres.
This R&D play presents the experiences of people who escaped this turmoil, telling the stories of oppression and social engineering that, in scale and cruelty, recalls the Nazi regime of the 1940s.
Script by Raminder Kaur
Directed by Christine Bacon
In collaboration with iceandfire, a unique human rights theatre group in UK whose theatre-making is renowned as provocative, principled and innovative. Their work has been recognised by the prestigious Liberty Human Rights Arts Awards.
Funded by Arts Council England.
Please note: this event is for ages 14+.
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