The Return

7.30pm Thursday & Friday

What if a decade of your life has been hijacked without you realising it? What if the time of your life that felt exciting and invigorating proves to have also been deeply traumatic? These are some of the questions that inspired and prompted the research and making of The Return.

Combining movement, storytelling, and poetry, this profoundly personal story investigates how living through war has affected where Natasha is now. Expect touching, visual theatre with a disarming deadpan humour.

The Return is a migrant/female led, cross-disciplinary production exploring the intergenerational effects of war. It is based on personal experience of living in Croatia during the breakup of former Yugoslavia.

Performer: Natasha Stanic Mann
Lighting Designer: Josephine Tremelling
Sound Designer: Valentino Nioi, Chris Prosho
Director: Andres Velasquez
Producer: Dahna Borojević
Artistic Collaborators: Filomena Campus, Emily Harwood, Steve North
Music: Iva Bittova
Poem 'The Return' by Dobriša Cesarić

Supported by Arts Council England

★★★★★ “breath-taking, striking, thought-provoking”  Everything Theatre

“rich, compelling…an eyeopener” The Spy in the Stalls

Approx. running time 55 mins (no interval)

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