Abi Morgan's Background
Abi Morgan was born in 1968 in Cardiff, Wales. She was born into a family which was almost the stereotype of a theatrical family. Her father Gareth Morgan was the Artistic Director of the Gulbenkian Theatre in Newcastle and her mother Pat England was a successful repertory actor. Her parents divorced when she was in her teen year and her childhood was spent moving around the country while her mother acted in repertory theatre. She had attended seven separate schools during her childhood. Her sister is the fund-raiser at London's Unicorn Theatre.
After initial ambitions to become an actress herself, she decided to become a writer while reading drama and literature at Exeter University. She then took a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Her writing career
She made her debut for the stage with "Skinned" at Nuffield Theatre in 1998. She has written plays for some well-known theatre like National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Court and Traverse Theatre. She got nominated as the most promising playwright at 2002 because of the 2001 play "Tender" for the Hampstead Theatre.
She was then commissioned to write the single drama "Sex Traffic" for Channel 4 in 2004 and won the 2005 BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial. She has since written a number of single dramas for television including "Tsunami: The Aftermath" in 2006, "Birdsong" in 2012 (it's a two-part television adaption of Sebastian Faulks's novel of the same title). She also wrote the legal drama "The Split", first shown on BBC1 in April 2018.
Morgan's first continuing drama series was "The Hour" in 2011. It was commissioned for a second series but cancelled after the second series was transmitted, all because of its ratings have been one quarter lower than the first.
In Abi Morgan's drama, the humanity and the disempowering nature of ideological structures are in a dance of constant tension with one another.
Click here to read more about Abi Morgan's experiences she shares with Simon Stephens
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Research based on FUGEE
What is a refugee camp?...
A refugee camp is intended as a temporary accommodation for people who have been forced to flee their home because of violence and persecution. Hostility built shelters means immediate protection, the camps allow UNHCR to deliver essential resources like food, water and medical attention during an emergency. They are constructed while crises unfold for people fleeing for their lives.More facts about refugees and refugee camp
- 2.6million refugees live in camps. Million more live in urban areas and informal dwellings.
- 80,000 number of refugees living in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. This is approximately the population of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- 55% of refugees come from just three countries, Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan.
- By the end of 2016, 65.6 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. That was an increase of 300,000 people over the previous year.
- 3.5million of refugees that are school-age children not in school.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has announced plans to build a refugee camp that could accommodate around 800,000 Rohingya Muslims pouring over the border from Myanmar. The camp would be the largest in the world.
The UN's refugee agency estimates there are an unprecedented 65.5 million refugees in the world today, split between urban centers or informal settlements, and more formal camps.
Here are some of the largest of these camps based on UN figures.
- Bidibidi, Uganda: 285,000
- Dadaab, Kenya: 239,500
- Kakuma, Kenya: 185,000
- Nyarugusu, Tanzania: 139,630
- Zaatari, Jordan: 80,140
One of the refugee companies in the UK
The REFUGEE COUNCIL is one of the leading charities in the UK working directly with refugees and supporting them to rebuild their lives.
The charity was founded in 1951 in response to the UN Convention for Refugees, which was created after World War II to ensure refugees were able to find safety in other countries. Since then, the Refugee Council has provided practical and emotional support to refugees from across the world to help them rebuild their lives and play a full part in society.
Thousands of children are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in government forces and armed opposition groups. They may fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, and act as spies, messengers, or lockouts. Girls may be forced into sexual slavery. Many are abducted or recruited by force, while others join out of desperation, believing that armed groups offer their best chance for survival.
Click here to watch children soldiers talking about their experiences and escapes
Children Soldiers
Click here to watch children soldiers talking about their experiences and escapes
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How are the pieces of information aiding me in my acting?...
From my research, I was surprised by the huge amount of vulnerable people around the world, I never knew there are so many people suffering for their whole life worrying about a safe place to live. By putting myself into the world of theirs, as a manager, I'm getting more realistic emotions inside me. I helped myself by imagine if my refugee camp is not the kind of very big ones, and only be able to support children, everything would start making sense as a child over 18 is considered as a young adult. In the play, I believe that Kojo is only 14, but for the social worker, it's impossible for him to believe a 14-year-old child will have hair on his face.
I've never experienced the situation like them or have any knowledge about this before knowing the play. The sympathy I feel for them can also be shown in the play as a manager.
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