Guantanamo Boy (2013)

White Horse Road
6 Nov - 29 Nov 2013
Age range: 12+
  • Half Moon Presents a Brolly production
  • by Dominic Hingorani, adapted from the book by Anna Perera

Innocent until proven guilty? Not here you’re not.

Khalid likes football, hip hop, computer games and has a big crush on a girl – like any other teenage boy. Except being a young Muslim in the aftermath of 9/11 can be very dangerous. Snatched in the middle of the night he is thrown into a nightmare world in which he is presumed guilty. Alone, afraid and far from home, will he have the strength to survive? Guantanamo Boy asked difficult questions about how we balance human rights and national security – and what happens if we get the balance wrong. For this production, the audience sat within a caged environment, and as a result provided an immersive experience for audiences right into the heart of the ‘war on terror’ seen through the eyes of one boy.

A Brolly production which toured nationally as part of Half Moon presents.

The production was accompanied by a digital platform – www.findkhalid.com – that allowed young people to learn about the wider political context that led to Khalid’s detention and featured ‘talking heads’ from leading advocacy organisations such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights Lawyers Association.

You can access the script of this play via the British Library’s MPS Modern Playscripts Collection.

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Cast List

  • Antonio Khela Khalid
  • Bhawha Bhawsar Mum/Abdul
  • Roisin O'Loughlin Niamh/Agent
  • Edward Nkom Holgy/Wade

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