Tara Theatre announce virtual reality performance about Bangladeshi women’s experiences

Tara Theatre will present AMMA, in which Bangladeshi women’s experiences will take centre stage. The extensively researched and thought-provoking production allows audiences to experience at first hand what it was like to experience the war and in turn leave for the UK in the 1970s and 80s to build a new life in a new place. The performance celebrates 50 years of Bangladesh.

Developed from artist-led workshops with local Bangladeshi women in Birmingham, Walsall, Manchester and London, Tara Theatre has rigorously collected testimonies that show what it was like to live through the War of Independence of Bangladesh.

Kamal Kaan will script this oral history into a powerful virtual reality performance preserving the voices that led to independence for future generations.

AMMA is directed by Abdul Shayek and runs at Tara Theatre from 30th November – 17th December.

Abdul Shayek said: “Until fairly recently I knew very little about the birth of Bangladesh, these projects are a culmination of my discoveries and education of the land of my birth. There is an urgency and need to tell and preserve these stories as we are losing the people who helped to create Bangladesh.”