From The Daughter of a Dictator

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Yasmeen lived and cautiously thrived in a dictatorship for almost two decades. This is a one-person show exploring her personal journey of migration from Baghdad to Beirut to Berlin to Britain.

There still lives the belief, a false one perhaps, that the UK, Europe, "the West" are the final bastions of human rights. But what if these illusory safe shores of democracy are in danger of disappearing. What if living in a democracy is becoming no different than living in a dictatorship. Where do we go then? More importantly, where will you go?

'From The Daughter Of A Dictator' is a collage of fragmented images and anecdotes about displacement, hope, sorrow, joy, and resistance converging into the body and voice of one person trying to orient in a violently loud, crushing world. Stories are spoken, whispered, sung and woven together with the conviction of a 'rawiya'. The body takes its chances to hold, preserve, resist and crack under the weight and pressure of extremes.

This is a performance about the human right to dream.