One of the most controversial periods in British history is the subject of a new play forming part of the Crescent Theatre’s new autumn schedule.
Windrush – The Betrayal is being presented by the Agape Theatre Company on 10 and 11 September at the Westside venue in Sheepcote Street, Brindleyplace.
The Windrush scandal began in 2018 when people who emigrated to Britain in the late 1940s and 50s were wrongly detained and, in a number of cases, deported from the UK by the Home Office.
The term ‘Windrush generation’ was named after the Empire Windrush, the ship that brought one of the first groups of West Indian migrants to the UK.
Written by Mark Grey, Windrush – The Betrayal explores the “hostile environment” created to reduce net migration which allowed the government to deport migrants out of the country.
The play praises the “tenacious journalism” of the Guardian newspaper for what it highlights as this ‘shameful policy’.
Elsewhere in the Crescent’s autumn season, Too Write Productions presents 180° Chord by Chris Leicester on 3 September.
They plot surrounds a character who at one moment is a Detective Sergeant, the pride of the police force, but then becomes a convicted murderer – sent to the same prison as many of the criminals they had dealt with.
For more information about these and all other forthcoming shows, visit www.crescent-theatre.co.uk, email boxoffice@crescent-theatre.co.uk or call 0121 643 5858.
