Going Through

"It's not always children's stories that happen to children."
When the men come to drive her away, Youmna cuts off Nour's hair. And so begins one girl's journey. By bus, by lorry, into the sound of gun-shots, through adolescence and across borders.
The UK premiere of Estelle Savasta's critically acclaimed French play Traversée, Going Through is a bold play about the realities of child migration, combining English, BSL and Creative Captioning.

Writer and director Estelle Savasta runs 'Hippolyte a mal au coeur', a company creating ground-breaking bilingual work based in France. Her first play Seule dans ma peau d'âne received acclaim at the 2008 Molières awards. Going Through (originally Traversée) is her second play.
Kirsten Hazel Smith grew up in France to Scottish parents, and trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a bilingual reader for the Cross Channel Theatre Group which promotes French new writing in the UK.