“When our mothers first arrived in the East End the world was a very different place and London was a very different city.”
From Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood to Keir Starmer’s Island of Strangers, She Was There is a playful exploration of the lives and hidden histories of women who resisted racism in 1970s and 80s London.
The one-woman performance by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin is informed by in-depth research by Dr Julia Giese and will be followed by an informal space for discussion.
"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
