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"I HAVE 

A SCREAM 

I WANT THE WORLD TO HEAR... 

...BUT I WONDER,
WILL IT BE HEARD?"

VIDEO INTRO
ABOUT US

Refugees and asylum seekers explain to you why they were driven from their own homes and came to live in the UK, through a series of podcast interviews with Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling, creators of the Trojan Women Project.

Episodes 1-3 tell the story of Arwa, a Palestinian Syrian actress, and how she and her beloved golden retriever, Jacko, finally escaped the devastating civil war and made their way to the UK and safety, overcome the odds, including being made homeless, to find love, happiness and stability with Jonathan her fiancé, and their new born baby, Arthur.

Why Am I In Your Country? launched through the Mail on Sunday on 11th February 2024 in You Magazine with an interview with Arwa and Jonathan about finding love in a homeless shelter.

 

The latest project from the Trojan Women Project, a combined psycho-social support and drama project for refugees, Why Am In Your Country? allows refugees and asylum seekers to tell their stories directly to the host audience, in a powerful and compelling manner.

 

Working with refugees and asylum seekers who are part of their regular drama psycho-social support workshops, currently running at the Chelsea Theatre, Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling are creating a ten episode pilot project of the podcast that launched in February 2024.

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Trojans UK 22-25

"Astonishing...deeply moving...magnificent"

"4 stars"

(Audience reviews TROJANS UK 22 K&C Festival showing)

NOW FULL!

TROJANS UK 24-25

Tell YOUR story to the world.

All refugees/asylum seekers welcome.

Come along, meet new friends, have fun and lunch. 

A new drama production written and performed by refugees from the highly acclaimed Trojan Women Project working towards a theatre adaptation of Euripides' great anti-war Greek tragedy.

NEW WORKSHOPS ONGOING

Workshops are open to women and men over 16.

Free hot lunch at 1 PM for participants. Free child-care facilities for younger children. 

£10 travel expenses

Chelsea Workshops

Chelsea Theatre

7, World's End Place, London SW10 0DR

Every Thursday 10am to 1.30pm

Hounslow Workshops

The Arts Centre, Hounslow

Every Wednesday from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

OR 2pm to 4.30pm

For queries please click on the button below or call/text these numbers.

07769603233 / 07796633706

Charlotte Eagar / William Stirling

 

 

SEE THE TROJANS UK 22 PLAYGROUND THEATRE PERFORMANCE FILM

Iryna (Ukraine 2022):

"Trojans is a magic that allows one to go out of your own bubble, tell your story to others, acquire new experience in acting, communicating and interacting with people of different nationalities."

Badhurry (Afghanistan 2021): 

"Being a refugee is strange and complicated. It requires a certain process to integrate in a new society… I wish every refugee could experience Trojans and feel peaceful mind through performance and Drama."

"Every refugee has their own story, culture and values but most importantly we all live in a new society, with new culture and challenges. Finding and discussing common ground, through drama helps initiate ideas to overcome the challenges."

 

Nadia (Ukraine 2022):

"I hope that this project will help refugees overcome trauma and send a strong message to the world that wars and violation of human rights have always been harmful to humanity and to women.”


Our core aims are helping refugees overcome isolation, trauma, depression and giving them a platform to tell their stories to their host communities as well as building links and trying to provide new professional and personal opportunities.

"It was an extraordinary moment of connection across culture and time. It was a sharing of human pain, suffering, resilience, heroism and creative genius."

- Dr Kathleen M. Pike, University of Columbia,

 Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology

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SUPPORT OUR WORK 

by watching our films 

Buy or rent our films and all proceeds go towards supporting our ongoing projects and our refugee participants. 

Our films aim to amplify and document the voices and lived experiences of our refugee cast who participate in our joint therapeutic/advocacy projects. 

Watch our films to gain an insight into our work, and support our ongoing projects. 

TROJANS UK 22-23-24 - THE TOUR

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TROJANS UK 22-23-24 IS A BRAND NEW UK-WIDE ADAPTATION OF EURIPIDES’ ANTI-WAR TRAGEDY, THE TROJAN WOMEN

18 months into Trojans UK 22-23-24, we're delighted to announce the success so far of our new, long-term, country-wide project for refugees and host community members. We are touring the Trojans UK through a series of community drama workshops. The workshops will help cultivate cross-community ties and give our refugee participants a platform to tell their stories. 

This project is aimed at Ukrainian, Afghan and Syrian refugees, as well as any other migrants and host communities who wish to be involved.

Partnering with Chelsea Theatre, after two projects in the last two years, we are now embarking on our third Trojans UK project in London and are currently applying for funding for projects in Hounslow, Stirling and other locations in the UK.

​Trojans UK is a brand new production of Euripides’ great anti-war tragedy, The Trojan Women, with a cast of refugees and host community members – including a core cast of refugees who have been professional actors in their own countries, and host community actors, with a chorus of amateur actor refugees and hosts from drama workshops. The multi-lingual workshops will also help the participants learn English.

 

Our aim is to have a London run of Trojans UK in two years time, but we are also working towards a London ‘mini-tour’ of the project so far.

The Trojans - on Location

The Trojans - on Location

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