About
My Story, My Voice
My Story, My Voice is a one-woman play and a true story about a young British girl of Nigerian descent, who is cast out of her family home into the world of a children’s home and multiple foster parents, only to return to the troubled home of her own parents. It is set in 1970’s England. In this story the main protagonist struggles to find acceptance in an environment of hostility and actual child abuse.
The play brings into focus some of the struggles and pressures that might be experienced by children of immigrants in western society. It highlights the more universal experience of the vulnerability of childhood and the ways in which children are completely at the mercy of adults, often internalizing all the misplaced messaging they receive about their identities. My Story, My Voice reminds us that even in the bleakest of beginnings there can be hope and even triumph.
About
My Story, My Voice
My Story, My Voice is a one-woman play and a true story about a young British girl of Nigerian descent, who is cast out of her family home into the world of a children’s home and multiple foster parents, only to return to the troubled home of her own parents. It is set in 1970’s England. In this story the main protagonist struggles to find acceptance in an environment of hostility and actual child abuse.
The play brings into focus some of the struggles and pressures that might be experienced by children of immigrants in western society. It highlights the more universal experience of the vulnerability of childhood and the ways in which children are completely at the mercy of adults, often internalizing all the misplaced messaging they receive about their identities. My Story, My Voice reminds us that even in the bleakest of beginnings there can be hope and even triumph.
About
My Story, My Voice
My Story, My Voice… it’s about survival. It’s about developing Identity. This is a story of childhood, of the vulnerability of a child who finds herself prematurely cast out into a world in which she feels she doesn’t belong and is made to feel shame about her own identity.
The topic is broad, the story particular. It’s the story of a child of Nigerian immigrants in 1970’s England.
This one-woman-play takes us through this young girl’s struggles both to survive and to find meaning through the chaos, perhaps in spite of it.
“It’s a Dickensian tale. Only, it’s true. There is joy amongst the pain. I often liken my story to that of Jane Eyre, but a little darker…”
-Ivy Omere