How Not To Drown

The action-packed and highly visual How Not to Drown returns to Traverse 1 following rave reviews from audiences and critics alike during TravFest19.

In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. He relies on his young wit and charm to make it to the UK. But the fight for survival continues as he clings to his identity and sense of self when he ends up in the British care system.

Painful, yet uplifting, How Not to Drown sees Dritan and an impressive cast share his own story of endurance as a little kid who wasn’t safe or welcome anywhere in the world.

The action-packed and highly visual How Not to Drown returns to Traverse 1 following rave reviews from audiences and critics alike during TravFest19.

In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. He relies on his young wit and charm to make it to the UK. But the fight for survival continues as he clings to his identity and sense of self when he ends up in the British care system.

Painful, yet uplifting, How Not to Drown sees Dritan and an impressive cast share his own story of endurance as a little kid who wasn’t safe or welcome anywhere in the world.