With the growing humanitarian crisis concerning destitute migrants in Calais, iceandfire feels an urgent need to add a third play to our series of documentary scripts about migration, this time focusing on the European dimension of immigration and asylum.

On a Clear Day You Can See Dover weaves together factual information and testimonies gathered from interviews with Calais migrants seeking to enter the UK. The research and writing was undertaken by iceandfire’s founder and Associate Writer, Sonja Linden. Sonja has been to Calais twice to gather testimonies from some of the migrants there and responses from French people on the ground, both those supportive and hostile to the migrant population.

You can read about her experiences in Calais in Sonja’s blog.

This show was launched in London and Leeds in July 2010. Kate Kellaway in The Observer described the performance as “superb and moving”.

This project has been generously supported by the Helen Tetlow Memorial Fund.