Join us at Nottingham Playhouse for an exclusive access backstage tour, a peek behind the scenes of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and a fascinating insight into representations of forced migration in the arts led by NTU Associate Professor, Anna Ball.

Nottingham Playhouse is a producing theatre, meaning that everything you see on stage is made by us! We’re inviting Bromley House Library members to get an inside look on what our production department has created for The Beekeeper of Aleppo (3-25 February) and what’s in the works for Village Idiot.

After your tour, please join us and Nottingham Playhouse Patrons and Pass members (who will have just explored Bromley House Library) for a free drink and a talk from Anna Ball exploring the representations of the refugee experience across history, literature and drama.

Please arrive at Nottingham Playhouse for 5.50pm, as the tour will commence promptly at 6pm.

*Please note that this event is for Bromley House Library members only.

Anna Ball

Anna Ball is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures and Cultures at Nottingham Trent University. Her research explores and enacts transcultural feminist activisms within the landscapes of refugee and sanctuary-seeking experience, and her most recent monograph, Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements, was published with Routledge in 2021. Anna’s work is founded in a collaborative participatory arts-based framework, and in addition to her part-time role at NTU, she is a Community Outreach Programmer for Vanclaron CIC: a community interest company that supports refugees’ and sanctuary-seekers’ physical and mental health, through whom she currently delivers an interdisciplinary arts programme to support mental wellbeing for sanctuary-seekers in asylum accommodation across Nottingham. Anna is also Chair of Nottingham Refugee Week, an annual arts festival that works to create a culture of city-wide sanctuary through the arts, and is an active member of the University of Sanctuary team at NTU. Her current research project, ‘Hostile Environment, Artful Living: New Narratives and Cultural Practices of Sanctuary’, draws on these cross-sector networks, and will be launched through the Postcolonial Studies Centre at the Bonington Gallery in June this year as part of Nottingham’s Refugee Week celebrations; all are welcome to attend.