Full details are on the Official Invitation for Schools and Colleges.
Please note that learners (and staff!) will need to bring lunch.
On the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide, New Vic Borderlines and Remembering Srebrenica presents a special version of My Thousand Year Old Land, a documentary piece of theatre, written by a Bosnian war survivor Aida Haughton MBE and Susan Moffat,
Director of New Vic Borderlines. The play brings the beauty, music and culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina to audiences, telling a story of the search for truth, justice and hope through women whose lives are changed by the deaths of their communities’ men in
war.
"Having worked for the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia) in Bosnia from 1996 - 2001, I can say that the cast portrayed the genocide in Srebrenica both sensitively and forensically. At first, I tried to stop my tears but
unashamedly let them fall. I found it interesting when the cast sometimes spoke in Bosnian.... This play has international significance and should be seen worldwide.
Robert McNeil MBE, former UN Anatomical Pathology Technologist
“It was a wonderful play, very moving and truly educational too.” Aron Mon, Remembering Srebrenica Project Manager, Birmingham
The women – Pravda (meaning “justice”), Istina (“truth”), and Nada (“hope”) – sit around a table, grinding coffee and telling stories. Around them on stage are men’s boots, belts and a hat. It’s what writer and director Susan Moffat calls “the presence of
absence”. The testimonies are complemented by traditional folk songs and poetry which examine what it means to have roots, and to feel the connections between land and people.
About Us
New Vic Borderlines, is the award-winning initiative using theatre in social contexts. It works regionally, nationally and internationally, and is acknowledged as a national model for the ways theatre can be used to work within the community. It uses theatre
to help people find new and positive ways to understand themselves, their communities and their responsibilities. It challenges destructive and anti-social behaviour, builds self-awareness and self-worth and develops positive attitudes. For more information please
visit
https://www.newvictheatre.org.uk/education-and-community/borderlines/