(Can This Be) Home
Half music concert, half spoken word performance where Kolbrún Sigfúsdóttir examines the immigrant experience of Brexit and flautist/composer Tom Oakes plays the tunes his travels have inspired.
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Half music concert, half spoken word performance where Kolbrún Sigfúsdóttir examines the immigrant experience of Brexit and flautist/composer Tom Oakes plays the tunes his travels have inspired. A show literally in the making since the summer before the vote, we take stock of where we are now. Can we ever feel at home again?
Brite Theater is a multi award-winning company known for unorthodox stagings.
Winner of the Prague Fringe New Territories Award (2018).
Age 12+ | Strong Language/Swearing
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