Refugee Boy

Alem is fourteen and in London with his father on the best holiday he has ever had. But he wakes to find himself alone, a stranger in an unfamiliar country. Overnight he has become a refugee. Read more …

As a violent civil war rages back home, Alem’s Ethiopian father and Eritrean mother make the heartbreaking decision to leave him in London, on his own but hopefully safe at last. Amidst the chaos of court hearings, children’s homes, life-changing friendships and loving foster families, Alem determines to take control, to transcend his label, to become Alem Kilo - an African, a Peacemaker and no longer just a Refugee Boy.

The work of two of the UK’s most prolific and revered poets, Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay are brought together in this heartbreaking and hilarious show.