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'This Blasted Place' at Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
Written by Jo Pratt
Directed by Erika Sanderson
Produced by Unbound
A new one-act play by Jo Pratt
In 1949, a child is born in London to bereaved and traumatised Jewish refugees. In 2024, she peevishly prepares to celebrate her 75th birthday in a respite home with the help of her long-suffering daughter, Helen, and supremely patient care worker, Atef. As the day unfolds, the two women's troubled but deeply loving relationship reveals how the pernicious effects of the Holocaust have reverberated, on a very personal level, through three generations. Meanwhile, Atef is experiencing present-day trauma. His beloved relatives are trapped in Gaza and he's desperate to help them escape. History, it seems, has a nasty habit of refusing to stay in the past.
This timely and powerful new one-act play is the winner of the 2025 New Voices Playwriting Commission and is presented by QPAC’s award-winning in-house storytelling company, Unbound, thanks to the generous support of the Rothschild Foundation.
Directed by Erika Sanderson
Produced by Unbound
A new one-act play by Jo Pratt
In 1949, a child is born in London to bereaved and traumatised Jewish refugees. In 2024, she peevishly prepares to celebrate her 75th birthday in a respite home with the help of her long-suffering daughter, Helen, and supremely patient care worker, Atef. As the day unfolds, the two women's troubled but deeply loving relationship reveals how the pernicious effects of the Holocaust have reverberated, on a very personal level, through three generations. Meanwhile, Atef is experiencing present-day trauma. His beloved relatives are trapped in Gaza and he's desperate to help them escape. History, it seems, has a nasty habit of refusing to stay in the past.
This timely and powerful new one-act play is the winner of the 2025 New Voices Playwriting Commission and is presented by QPAC’s award-winning in-house storytelling company, Unbound, thanks to the generous support of the Rothschild Foundation.
Fri 20 Mar to Sunday 22 March
Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
Queens Park
Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP21 7RT
20th March: 7.30 - 9.30pm21st March: 2 - 4pm
22nd March: 7.30 - 9.30pm
Tickets: £10/Concessions £8
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