A bit of a treat for you, with audio adaptations of two recent hard-hitting plays available to download.
Marking Refugee Week and the end of a four year journey for this play, Douglas Rintoul's
Elegy can be downloaded both high and lower quality
from this very webpage and there's a digital programme and the text available for you as well to make a comprehensive little package. This Transport Theatre production is a devastating piece of documentary theatre, charting the horrendous experiences of gay Iraqi refugees as they were forced to flee their homeland.
I saw it back in 2012 and it has stayed with me ever since, I definitely recommend giving this a listen.
And as something of an accidental companion piece,
Lampedusa blew me away at the Soho Theatre
back in April this year, hitting a shocking vein of synchronicity as news of boatloads of refugees dying in the Mediterranean suddenly dominated the front pages. HighTide's production of Anders Lustgarten's play will be returning to the Soho at the end of the month but you can listen to an adaptation of it now
on the Guardian website or download it as an mp3 and partake of it at your leisure. Again, it is often brutal but remains a powerful piece of theatre that speaks so much to our current time.
