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Book SynopsisReversing the usual refugee story cliches, Homing Birds shares the hopes, fears and aspirations of a young man searching for a place in which he feels he truly belongs. Young Afghan refugee Saeed desperately wants to reconnect with his roots and find his long-lost sister. So he leaves his adoptive family in London and returns home to Kabul to work as a doctor, eager to contribute to rebuilding a new Afghanistan. But as past and present collide, Saeed must face up to the reality of his changed world. This captivating and evocative play asks if a place can ever be home without a connection to family and roots?
Trade Review“A work of significance and spirited potency, a deep and intelligent examination of people and themes too rarely presented on stage” **** - Tara Theatre; 'The migration debate never stopped hounding settlers’ - Eastern Eye; 'Can a place ever be home without a connection to family and roots? asks Rukhsana Ahmad’s current show Homing Birds. Focusing on Saeed’s story, we learn about the journey of many Afghan refugees forced to flee their homeland to avoid the dangers they find themselves confronted with; A heartbreaking repercussion of this being the disconnection of families and roots. How can one even begin to trace their own history having lost that connection?' - Theatre Full Stop.
