The Christmas wrapping paper is in the recycling box along with New Year's champagne bottles. Resolutions have been made, left-overs finished off and London has just been ravaged by an apocalyptic rain storm. Yep, 2012 is here and we are looking forward to a new and exciting year for Justice Matters.
Join us as usual on the third Wednesday in the month to "learn to do right, seek justice and defend the oppressed." eat with us from 7pm or join us at 8pm for the main event.
If you are looking for something else to fill you January, you might also be interested in this play about sex trafficking that a friend of Justice Matters is co-directing.
See you on the 18th...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Shedding light on sex trafficking
A friend of Justice Matters is co-directing a play this January. She describes it as a powerful and delicate take on one girl's journey from darkness to recovery, told in poetry, physical theatre and song. Anyone interested in going?
The birds, only the birds can see
Two stories intertwine with each other until they become one.
The first story is told in the present. The play begins with a poem, it echoes into the past, where bells of truth make sounds that resonate to the heart. It may be disturbing and real, but the journey for Lilly is about to end. For those who are watching, the journey has just begun.
Lilly unexpectedly finds herself in a poetry class. Maybe, just maybe, by finding a way to tell her story, it might release her from the past. Jason her teacher, a cold hearted man makes it all uncomfortable. Only the best are selected for the exam and she’s not one of them. Despite the rejection, Lilly has a choice, whether to give up and leave the course, or to fight?
As the poem is being told, we jump to the second story, which is the past. Lilly’s wish is to be a dancer, an unexpected stranger arrives just in time. Thinking he’s about to change her life for the better, he takes her to a house to be sex trafficked. Lilly is beaten up and forced to give services to men. Unable to go anywhere through fear of being killed, her only hope is to find comfort in drugs.
Too much of a wish, can destroy a dream.
The first story is told in the present. The play begins with a poem, it echoes into the past, where bells of truth make sounds that resonate to the heart. It may be disturbing and real, but the journey for Lilly is about to end. For those who are watching, the journey has just begun.
Lilly unexpectedly finds herself in a poetry class. Maybe, just maybe, by finding a way to tell her story, it might release her from the past. Jason her teacher, a cold hearted man makes it all uncomfortable. Only the best are selected for the exam and she’s not one of them. Despite the rejection, Lilly has a choice, whether to give up and leave the course, or to fight?
As the poem is being told, we jump to the second story, which is the past. Lilly’s wish is to be a dancer, an unexpected stranger arrives just in time. Thinking he’s about to change her life for the better, he takes her to a house to be sex trafficked. Lilly is beaten up and forced to give services to men. Unable to go anywhere through fear of being killed, her only hope is to find comfort in drugs.
Too much of a wish, can destroy a dream.
9 - 22 January 2012
7.45pm
Tickets: £12
Box office: 0208 932 4747
londontheatre@googlemail.c
Tickets: £12
Box office: 0208 932 4747
londontheatre@googlemail.c
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