Piece Of Silk

'You’ll f**k us, but you hate us, right? Especially if we’re ‘other’'

Shaz, 19, has 1,213 followers on Vimeo, ‘Shaggytales’. Sister Dunya, 17, drums, shouts but doesn’t leave the house. They’ve never met their older brother from overseas, who comes to keep an eye while mum’s away. He has only their best interests at heart.

So why do they fear for their lives?

Their best-friend Billy is sucked in:
'This is a true story
Within a fairy tale
Within a fable.
It’s about magic and mystery and Goings on.
It’s about my street, my blood, my Better-than-my-own family.'

Inspired by The Arabian Nights and drawing on the shocking stories of women survivors of domestic violence, Piece Of Silk proves definitively that ‘story-telling is a matter of life and death’.

Jennie Buckman, writer (Rada, BBC, National Theatre) and Tania Azevedo, director, worked with Southall Black Sisters, Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights’ Organisation and artists from Not Shut Up Collective to create this refreshing, multi-media, new play.

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time of 7:45pm.

Under 18s are not permitted into the theatre for this performance.