SHAHRAZAD
RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT

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Repetition. Chores. Work. Dinner. Waltz.

Playing it safe. Raised voices. Sharp noises.

Trapped behind high walls and closed doors, each day a woman must find tricks and tactics to divert her husband’s growing anger. She has a plan to save herself and the women who follow her. She must weave an imaginary world to escape reality. They must escape.

Our R&D process was informed by interviews and conversations with staff and service users of domestic abuse charities. The scenes we devised and the script by Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen have interwoven the age-old tale of One Thousand and One Nights with real-life accounts of present-day Shahrazads.

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Find out more about the next stages of Shahrazad here