In a Thousand Pieces - The Paper Birds Theatre Company

After a total sell out and Fringe First award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival The Paper Birds present their critically acclaimed new show ‘In a Thousand Pieces’.

 Ice-creams, suitcases, floorboards and buttons tell the physically and visually moving tale of a young Eastern European girl and her journey to England. A beautifully woven patchwork of accounts, misunderstanding, movement, text and live original music deliver this touching and delicate depiction of the violent, isolated and brutal world home to thousands of women forced into the British sex trade.

‘In a Thousand Pieces’ sees stories, events, voices and settings packed up and unpacked from battered and bruised suitcases by battered and bruised women while their stories fracture, reform, repeat and take on new shapes and forms like a distorted kaleidoscope looking for an answer for this epidemic of sex slavery.

“Powerful and extremely moving”  **** THE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
“Absorbing, essential lovely viewing.” - ‘Must See’ THE STAGE
“A sharp, compassionate and deeply felt show”  **** THE SCOTSMAN
"Inspired and challenging" **** THE METRO
“Imaginative physical theatre that tackles the issue with wit, verve and compassion”. **** THE LIST