Our flagship production, Asylum Monologues is a first-hand account of the UK’s asylum system in the words of people who have experienced it.

With personal testimony at its core combined with public opinion, political statements and statistical fact, this production disseminates what it really means to be displaced in the UK.

“This is the thing that the British people don’t understand. They think we came here just because we want to live here. We came here because there are problems – that why we came here.”

Some audience feedback:

“I came here tonight without knowing the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee. I am choked for words. This was a powerful, hard-hitting script of horrific events. I fully intend to support this cause.”

(Audience member, Asylum Monologues, Middlesbrough, Jan 2007).

“It really brought home just how easy it is to demonise asylum seekers and just how ignorant a lot of people are about the issues, including myself.”

(Audience member, Asylum Monologues, Oxford, October 2006)

Click here to watch a 20 minute film about how Asylum Monologues was developed.

Launched in London at Amnesty International in June 2006.

We have also collected a number of other testimonies focusing on lack of access to medical care, destitution of asylum seekers and the experiences of Darfuri asylum seekers living in the UK. Please let us know if you are interested in using the Asylum Monologues format to highlight certain issues about the asylum experience.

An Irish version of Asylum Monologues is also available to anyone who is interested in performing the script in Ireland.

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Download a list of sources used to write Asylum Monologues