Boat

This October plays host to the first full-length production run at Theatre N16’s thrilling new venue in Balham. New company Pigdog will conduct this maiden voyage with Boat, the debut play from award-winning poet and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

The girl is eleven and all she wants is to find a new home. But she’s been on this boat for what feels like forever. She can’t remember her name, or the last time she saw one of the litter lands. For miles around it’s just her, the sea creatures and her twin sister. Her twin has been asleep for a long time.

Millwood Hargrave creates the fantasy world of a girl who has been wrenched from her own country and thrust into an unfamiliar world, as part of the child trafficking industry that plagues our society.

The story of two young non-British girls on a boat - one of whom has lost her life - cannot fail to conjure up some of the tragic images of the migrant crisis seen recently on the news and social media.