IMPACT HUB BRADFORD AND ONLINE Struggling zero-hours sisters risk everything as Kamal Kaan’s angsty play transplants the action from Ancient Greece There is a home secretary hell bent on protecting UK borders. There is a charity worker being deported to a country where his homosexuality is a crime. And there are two British Bengali sisters, struggling in zero-hours cleaning jobs, whose acts of civil disobedience risk them losing their nationality. The mood might be heightened, but the political threat is real in Kamal Kaan’s angsty play in which the moral dilemmas of Sophocles’s Antigone are transplanted from Ancient Greece to modern-day Bradford. Here, in an out-of-hours office, Halema Hussain’s Aaliyah puts loyalty to her brother above respect for the law, as she and sister Imani (Lydia Hasoon) turn a social-media campaign into a takeover of Leeds Bradford airport. At Impact Hub Bradford until 16 October and online. Details: https://www.freedomstudios.co.uk/ Continue reading...
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