Little Brother

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About the Show

A man's journey across borders to find his brother, facing humanity's best and worst.

In Guinea, West Africa, Ibrahima discovers that his younger brother has secretly left school and is heading to Europe. Dropping everything, Ibrahima embarks on a perilous journey across the Sahara and towards the Mediterranean to find him. Along the way, he encounters both the kindness and cruelty of humanity. Celebrated playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker brings Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia's award-winning memoir to the stage for the first time in this modern odyssey directed by Stella Powell-Jones.

Critic Reviews (3)

"Balde’s clear and sometimes bathetic voice is captured but his story seems educational when it should come saturated with depth of emotion."
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"It is a dazzling display of chameleon acting, whip-smart staging and a script which resists sentimentality in favour of something much more powerful: a straight-up journey to try to save someone in your family."
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“It is a defiant, powerful and often joyful story where the humanity behind the statistics is revealed.”
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Cast and creative team

Jermyn Street Theatre

Producer

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Playwright

Stella Powell-Jones

Director