It's not a big problem. It doesn't affect his day to day life. Read more …
Mrs Gillespie still gives him detention, Sarah Hargreaves still threatens to smash his face in, and Mr Bartnik the shop keeper still won't let him forget that he owes 10p for bottle of milk he bought over a year ago. But Robbie has started noticing that people bump into him a lot in the street. That nobody ever really looks at him - they always look to the side or a metre behind, as though they're not quite sure exactly where he is. And this morning, the longer he looked in the mirror the less and less he could see of himself.
Terra Incognita was set up to tell the 'extraordinary stories of ordinary people', and if this show makes even one young carer more visible in the world, it's done its job.
This was no “perfect” production, but Invisible Army’s short, sensitive and imaginative handling of an important and often forgotten issue surely reminds us all of the immense good that theatre can do. For that alone, Terra Incognita deserve a full house – and probably a standing ovation to boot.
Invisible army of young carers in the spotlight
On Tour, from Friday October 7, 2016, until Saturday October 29, 2016.
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