A unique part fictional play - the Plastic Migrant - is being staged at Great Wyrely High School over 3 days: 29th June, 30th June and the 1st July (Saturday) 2023 at 7.00pm. On the Saturday there will also be a matinee at 2pm.
This play follows Manjolo on a perilous journey, not only up the River Nile choked with plastic but also the English Channel.
Set in the UK and Ethiopia the story follows a young man who, after going from ‘riches to rags’, arrives illegally in the UK. He is detained and put into a holding centre in Dover. After verbally assaulted by a female police officer he respectfully asks the officer to listen to his story, explaining that his only reason for coming to the UK was to find a cure for his wife’s infertility.
This play raises awareness of an impending Armageddon facing our world caused by natures greatest enemy – man himself. But Manjolo is no such man. His family endured impacts of plastic pollution and climate change through generations. For him infertility and economic disasters are real.
Not everyone chooses to see – but, as fortune smiles Manjolo does ….
