My Story, My Voice is a one-woman play and a true story about a young British girl of Nigerian descent who is cast out of her family home into the world of a children’s home and multiple foster parents, only to return to the troubled home of her own parents. It is set in 1970’s England. In this story, the main protagonist struggles to find acceptance in an environment of hostility and actual child abuse. The play brings into focus some of the struggles and pressures that might be experienced by children of immigrants in western society. It highlights the more universal experience of the vulnerability of childhood and the ways in which children are completely at the mercy of adults, often internalizing all the misplaced messaging they receive about their identities. My Story, My Voice reminds us that even in the bleakest of beginnings, there is hope and even triumph (please see website for more information at www.mystorymyvoicetheplay.com).
