Tickets: £5
Mende Nazer’s happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of 12 when the Mujahadin rode into her Sudanese village to murder and rape, burn down the buildings and abduct the children to sell them into slavery. She was sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum and stripped of her name and her freedom.
This shocking insight into the modern day slave trade has recently been adapted into a Channel 4/Slate films drama (I am Slave, shown on Bank Holiday Monday) and a stage show that premieres in November and transfers to the West End in 2011.
Mende, recipient of the CECRA Human Rights Award in 2002, is joined by co-writer and award-winning documentary maker Damien Lewis and director Caroline Clegg (Feelgood Theatre Productions) to talk about adapting for stage and screen.
A percentage of ticket sales will go to Mende Nazer Foundation to help build a new school in her home village.
“All the cliches of such survival stories… are inadequate to describe the emotional impact of her eventual deliverance” Observer
