THE PLAY

In a showdown between the CITIZENS and the STATE, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.
LESBOS amplifies rhythm and movement pulsing through every scene

NON-CITIZENS
We’ve eaten the dogs, we’ve eaten the cats,
The geese are still breathing but living on scraps.
they're fattened for feasts we will never attend,
we licked them, we slicked them,
they'll feast on us at the end.

CITIZENS You’ve eaten the dogs!
NON-CITIZENS (mocking back) We’ve eaten the dogs?

CITIZENS You’ve eaten the cats!
NON-CITIZENS (mocking back)

We’ve eaten the cats?

ALL (slowing, almost ritual)
We’ve all eaten the dogs,
We’ve all eaten the cats,
But the geese shall remain
To be feasting on us.
There are no dogs anymore,
Nor are there cats,
And Lesbos is nothing
But the bones of her past

The Chorus of and Non-Citizens
President of the Lesbos Assembly, Maria Papadopoulos
Syrian biogeneticist, Dr Sarah Al-Asari
The State
Member A