September - November 2019

From the boardrooms of corporate arms giants, through the halls of Parliament, to shelled hospitals and detainees waterboarded in a NATO black site in Romania, DISPLACED is an R&D into the stories of those displaced by British ‘humanitarian’ interventions and murdered by the arms we export. Following the UK tour of ILLEGALISED (Spring 2019), DISPLACED [working title] is the second in BÉZNĂ’s protest-play cycle denouncing the British State’s dehumanising of people from colonial times to today. DISPLACED led us to create wipe these tears (2022).

Britain sells arms to 39 of the 51 countries deemed “not free”

U.N. declared war on Yemen as ‘humanity’s greatest preventable disaster’

24 million+ in need of aid

4 million+ displaced

250 million dead predicted by 2020

UK’s £5 billion gained in arms contracts in the Yemen war declared unlawful

DISPLACED [working title] is informed by interviews with current / ex-service people, UK arms factory employees, people seeking asylum from war & conflict, people still living in conflict zones, psychologists & doctors who have worked in war-zones and the UK’s leading anti-war / anti-colonial experts and activists, conducted in an ACE, Unity Theatre Trust and Pluto Press-supported R&D (September - December 2019).