Asylum Monologues: Families Together Edition // STAR National

‘ I used to look up at the night sky and count the stars saying over and over to myself that this was not really happening to me. I would say, I can’t die. I have to see my daughter. I have to be able to hold her and tell how much I’ve missed her – how much I love her. I want to see her grow up and to be sitting with ten grandchildren at the age of eighty. I never gave up.’

Read by actors and performers, Asylum Monologues is a piece of documentary theatre sharing first hand accounts of peoples experiences of seeking refuge in the UK and undergoing the UK asylum process. ice&fire are a theatre company dedicated to exploring human rights stories through performance, putting human rights at the core of everything they do to make accessible theatre for a wide range of audiences across the UK.

STAR is the national charity of 35,000 students welcoming refugees to the UK. Together we: volunteer at local refugee projects; campaign to improve the lives of refugees; educate people about refugees and asylum; fundraise to welcome refugees. We support the Families Together campaign and campaign for the expansion of the UK’s refugee family reunion rules, so that families are no longer kept apart. Read more about Families Together and sign the open letter here: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/families-together

The Actors For Human Rights project is ice&fire’s campaigning programme, presenting readings of first hand accounts of people’s experiences relating to a range of human rights themes.

Content Warning: Experiences of state violence are shared in the reading