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A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (NHB Modern Plays)

Sami Ibrahim

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

Elif shears sheep for a rich landowner. Every other waking hour she spends queuing outside the palace, hoping that the King will let her live within the city walls. She comes from a faraway land. She is searching for sanctuary. And this is what we call a 'hostile environment'.
Sami Ibrahim's play A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain is a poetic fable about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own. It premiered in Paines Plough's Roundabout in 2022, including a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as a co-production between Paines Plough and Rose Theatre, Kingston, in association with the Gate Theatre, London.
Available since: 08/11/2022.
Print length: 88 pages.

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