Venues in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are putting work by refugees and asylum seekers at their heartIn 2013, West Yorkshire Playhouse staged Refugee Boy, an adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's novel about an Ethiopian-Eritrean teenager arriving in Britain. Alongside the play, the theatre engaged extensively with refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds, and the following year the Playhouse was named the UK's first the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on June 14, 2018