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NO ONE'S LAND (A FORUM THEATRE) Women Writers Festival

  • Etcetera Theatre 265 Camden High Street London, England, NW1 7BU United Kingdom (map)

No One’s Land is a Forum Theatre performance following Bahar, a Turkish woman in her mid-thirties who flees years of domestic abuse and death threats from her ex-husband. Hoping to survive and reunite with her young daughter, she escapes to the UK hidden in a lorry arranged by smugglers.

Debt quickly traps her again. Forced to work for those who brought her, Bahar is unknowingly drawn into a criminal network and accused of carrying drug money. Arrested, she is detained in an immigration centre, where the play begins.

Inside detention, Bahar is reduced to a case number. A tense scene unfolds between Bahar, an interpreter, and a lawyer, exposing distance, procedure, and power.

As a Forum Theatre piece, No One’s Land invites the audience to intervene directly, offer suggestions, and change the dialogue between the characters. By stepping in, spectators are asked to imagine alternatives: What could have been done differently, who is truly listening, and how might systems be transformed to protect rather than punish people like Bahar?

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