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SUMMARY:: Toxteth Library: Black History Month 23: Deported in a Windrush b
 y Leonisha Barley
DESCRIPTION:Location: Toxteth Library\n\nTicket price: FREE\n\nDate: Octob
 er 19\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm\n\nGET FREE TICKETS\n\nLeonisha Barley brings
  you a rehearsed reading and feedback session of her debut play ‘Deporte
 d in a Windrush’.\n\n‘Deported in a Windrush’ is a play based on the
  book: The Windrush Betrayal – exposing the hostile environment’ by 
 Amelia Gentleman. A book which revealed how the government’s immigration
  policy created a hostile environment for thousands of law-abiding people\
 , when they were wrongly classified as illegal immigrants.\n\nThe play ‘
 Deported in a Windrush’ follows the journey of Claudette Daley an unassu
 ming 61 year old grandmother who’s love language is feeding people and h
 ow the comfortable life she’d built for herself and her little family wa
 s turned upside down when she started to receive letters claiming she had 
 no right to be the UK and threatening to have her deported back to a count
 ry she hadn’t been back to since she left at the age of 6. She has a spe
 cial relationship with her feisty granddaughter Naomi\, and we see how she
  stands up for Claudette and becomes her support system through the turmoi
 l that’s been created in their lives by Theresa May’s ‘hostile envir
 onment.’ Claudette and Naomi retell their experience to Jessica\, a Guar
 dian journalist who points out the gross imbalances of power and shares th
 e experiences of many more people from the commonwealth countries whose li
 ves were destroyed due to the treatment they suffered when they too were m
 isclassified as illegal immigrants.\n\nMusic is used to bring a lighter to
 uch to these harrowing stories as well as caricatures of political figures
  such as Theresa May who is made to answer for her inhumane decision- maki
 ng systems during rounds of political question time\; throughout which UKI
 P leader Nigel Farage quite literally spits his dummy out.\n\nAs the 75th 
 anniversary of the Windrush generation arriving in England is celebrated a
 cross England\, it’s important that the stories of the thousands of vict
 ims still waiting in for the compensation in 2023 \, that were promised ba
 ck in 2018 are not overlooked but shared with the hopes of reigniting conv
 ersations leading to action which forces the current government to give th
 e compensation they promised\; which really is the least they can do for t
 he victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nAbout the writer\n\nLeonisha Barley
  is a lover of all things creative and a past participant on WoW’s high
 ly acclaimed Write to Work project. She is an emerging actress and playwri
 ght from Liverpool. She endeavours to create work for stage and TV that ce
 lebrates culture and life experiences while addressing important societal 
 issues. Leonisha enjoys using poetry as a powerful tool to express emotion
  and tell a story. She’s looking forward to diving deeper into the creat
 ive industry through writing and acting. Hopefully you’ll be seeing her 
 work soon on a stage near you!
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