Special Performance of The Bogus Woman
with playwright Kay Adshead

7.30pm, Saturday 24 June,
Human Rights Action Centre (Amnesty International)
17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2
Entrance by suggested donation of £5
 

Saturday, 24 June Kay Adshead will be introducing a special performance of her play, The Bogus Woman, at the Human Rights Action Centre (Amnesty International) in London.  This internationally acclaimed play focuses on the experiences of a woman imprisoned in Campsfield Detention Centre. The performance will be followed by a question and answer session with the All African Women’s Group (including women only recently released from detention) and Women Against Rape about their work together supporting women in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre, many of whom are rape survivors.

“Kay Adshead’s devastating, well-researched play lifts the lid on aspects of our immigration procedures. . .   The audience was so moved that for a while the applause was shocked into silence.  Political theatre is alive again.”

Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard, 12 February 2001

Kay Adshead has been an enthusiastic and encouraging supporter of the work done with women asylum seekers at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, particularly the “Welcome to Fortress Europe” theatre project.  This special performance arose from her ongoing determination to publicise the injustices faced by women in detention and because “I particularly wanted to raise awareness about women helping other women “at the coal face” in order to change things for the better”. 

The Bogus Woman by Kay Adshead, directed by Kully Thiari and performed by Sarah Niles is a Leicester Haymarket Production currently touring the UK.

To book tickets: www.amnesty.org.uk/action/events or call (0)20 7033 1500

Wheelchair accessible

Women Against Rape 020 7482 2496

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