All The Beds I Have Slept In
A play about staying hopeful in a scary worldA bed that wasn't a bed. A sheet in the Sahara.
A charpai on my roof in Afghanistan
On our balcony back home, sharing with my brother.
A blanket in the rescue ship that pulled me from the sea.
After a successful tour in autumn 2021 that saw nearly 500 refugee audience members and multiple sell-out performances, All The Beds I Have Slept In returns with an updated version and new cast from Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Morocco.
This energetic company of refugee performers explore the seam of kindness and care that lies within their experience of leaving their homelands to seek asylum.
From a flat in North London to the exercise yard of a Greek detention centre, beds anchor us to the various points of the journey. Supposed spaces of safety become transient; shelters are taken away without notice; and the route from one place to the next is fraught with obstacles.
This play is a shout-out to all the real people who kept the actors moving forward. It explores the intimacy created between friends when family is absent, and how to stay hopeful in a scary world.
Image Al-Hussein Abutaleb
Resilient, defiant and utterly real
The Skinny on Pizza Shop Heroes
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Abel Atsede
ActorTewodros Aregawe
ActorTalal Hassan
ActorNas Kamal
ActorIsmael Mohammed
ActorSyed Haleem Najibi
ActorFierce, bold, luminous… A resilient, defiant and utterly real reclamation of voices by a group so often ignored, misunderstood or spoken for.
The Skinny on Pizza Shop Heroes
a very skilled piece of theatre-making by one of the country’s leading applied theatre companies… It’s greatly important that many people see it… It is theatre for our future.
Broadway Baby on Pizza Shop Heroes
What makes this show fly are the touches added to make it a fundamentally human story, most notably when the script opens up ideas of a future that just might make it all worthwhile, somehow or other.
Three Weeks on Pizza Shop Heroes
This is a show in which the lived experience of the performers shines through, reminding us that if they are heroes it is because they have to be. They don’t have any choice.
Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor on Pizza Shop Heroes
All four are engaged, increasingly intelligent performers… It’s a genuine joy to see this company develop.
The Stage on Pizza Shop Heroes
Powerful, celebratory, affirming, authentic.
What’s On Stage on Pizza Shop Heroes
A beautiful piece of work.
The Tung on Pizza Shop Heroes
An engaging event that sparked numerous discussions afterwards with the audience that informally joined them on stage.
British Theatre Guide
An illuminating and innovative presentation of the asylum seeker’s journey… It is a play that should be seen by all.
North West End
