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The Boy with Two Hearts
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
THE return to theatre at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre has been celebrated with a production of Hamed Amiri’s The Boy with Two Hearts, the first Welsh refugee story to be brought to the iconic venue.
It tells the story of the Amiri family’s flight from the Taliban in 2000, to seek refugee status in Britain. The play is based on the book of the same title, published by Hamed (played here by Farshid Rokey) last year.
The family’s flight from the Taliban, leaving their home town of Herat, is prompted by a public speech by mum Fariba (Gehane Strehler), decrying the religious fundamentalists’ treatment of women and girls. The inevitable backlash from the country’s violent rulers prompts the Amiri family to flee.
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