Stowaway

A man wakes face down sprawled across his single bed the sunlight gently creeping through the window. Today is the day he will change his life. A Boeing 777 begins its descent towards Heathrow. The wheels unfold out of the belly of the plane. The frozen body of a stowaway is tipped out and cuts through the clear morning skyIn the car park of B&Q Andy looks up. Something is falling out of the sky. A man crash-lands on the ground in front of him.Stowaway is the story of a man from India who moves to the UAE for the promise of work and prosperity. When he finds himself trapped within a Dubai labour camp with his passport and wages withheld from him he hides in the wheel well of a plane bound for the UK in a bid for a better life. Its a story about invisible and physical borders and the people who transcend them.But what are the rules of telling someone elses story when they come from a world so very different from our own; where telling their story could act to perpetuate an unresolved history of imperialism?With the skeleton of a plane cutting across the stage Stowaway flies back and forth through time and place looking at storytelling as a political act.