'Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.'
Behind a counter, Hodan Isse dreams. Drill, money, receipts, dreams, missing stock, bruises, friendship, dreams, an investigation, God, fractured foundations. Dreams.
We follow Hodan Isse, a young sales associate who is accused of stealing stock. To prove her innocence she decides to investigate and uncovers more than she expected.
BABEL is a multidisciplinary show that explores the dreams and struggles of inner city working-class characters caught within the prism of a Shopping Centre. A show that interrogates our human need to build towers of illusion and hope to escape reality.
"It is precisely these types of projects, involving these types of people, in these types of theatres that make London what it is."
The Lancet
