

'With an affecting and distinctive narrative voice. Shakthidharan was first produced on a UK tour in 2022 by Pilot Theatre with York Theatre Royal, Derby Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Mercury Theatre Colchester.Īlso included: a range of teaching materials and resources designed to help educators bring the play to life for their students. This enthralling stage adaptation by award-winning Australian playwright S. The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers, has been widely read and studied around the world since its publication in 2017. It covers a range of important themes such as friendship and family, grief and loss, hope, fear and freedom.

Together, Subhi and Jimmie must find a way to freedom, and they must be braver than they've ever been before. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL THE BONE SPARROW 1/6 THE BONE SPARROW By Zana Fraillon ABOUT THE BOOK This moving book explores what it means to live as a refugee. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's mysterious and moving history.

One day, Jimmie appears on the other side of the fence, bringing a notebook written by the mother she lost. Now his imagination is pushing at the limits of his world. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he's ever known.
