Suitcase

Author(s): Ros Merkin
<em>Suitcase</em> is a site-specific promenade performance created to tell the story of the first arrivals in Britain of the Kindertransport, performed at train stations. <em>Suitcase</em> takes its audience on a journey around the station, meeting children who came on the Kindertransport as well as an organizer for the Refugee Children's Movement, a fundraising railway worker, foster parents waiting for their assigned child and a tea-drinking woman objecting to the arrival of the children. The performance features songs of the time and original music.
Format:Site specific promenade performance.

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Nationality of Author:English
Tags: Kindertransport

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