SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA

SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA comes to Hoxton Hall, 3–8 March 2026. Tickets on sale soon. 

What does it mean to seek asylum, to flee war and persecution, to claim your place in a new land? 

Inspired by Aeschylus’s SUPPLIANTS, our new multimedia performance explores these questions through the lives and voices of refugee women today. Foregrounding voices that are rarely heard, the play challenges prevailing ideas about political and cultural borders in Britain and Europe. 

In 2023 we ran a series of theatre workshops in Adana, Turkey, with Syrian refugee women from the Meryem Kadın Kooperatifi—an initiative supporting employment and empowerment through agricultural and work projects. In collaboration with Çukurova University’s Film Department, the workshops generated powerful scenes and testimonies that feature in the performance. 

Alongside the performance at Hoxton Hall, ARRIVING, BECOMING, BELONGING is our outreach project that will invite local refugee communities to engage through artworks, music, dance, and debate. 

The development phases of SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA was supported by the British Council’s Creative Collaborations Grant Programme, the Anna Lindh Foundation and Arts Council England. The premiere production is supported by Arts Council England. Arriving, Becoming, Belonging is supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.