iceandfire’s first play for young people, Separated, emerged from a series of drama workshops run with young refugees and unaccompanied minors.

Year 11. GCSEs. Then what? Daniel’s from London (but his dad’s from Ghana), Amanullah’s from Afghanistan (but he lives in London). They’re both 15 and that’s where the similarity ends. Or is it? Once they start putting things together they realise that just because they’re not the same doesn’t mean they’re different.

The play toured London secondary schools in 2007 & 2008 and has been seen by over 3000 students. The aim of the project was to encourage participants to use their own emotions to empathise with and understand the refugee experience and cope with their own forthcoming transitions.

An Education resource pack and workshop accompanied the piece to support Citizenship teachers and enhance their Citizenship provision.

“Thought this piece would be great for my boys who really need to understand these issues a lot more than they do at the moment! It was a fantastic experience for the students, a very moving piece, they responded really well, workshop really made them think and engage with the piece even more.”

Dan Lyndon, Henry Compton School

This project has been generously supported by the the The Ernest Cook Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Jack Petchey Foundation and The John Thaw Foundation.