LESBOS is a community-restorative, participatory play written by UNESCO Affiliate Artist,

Effie Samara in 2015 as the first wave of Syrian war refugees began to arrive onto the island of Lesbos in the Eastern Aegean. Its reconciliatory art synthesises fragile social and civic relationships within communities in conflict.

Contextualised within the broader ideals of war, peace and freedom it focuses on the love story between a Syrian biologist and a Greek nurse. The drama unfolds as an inexplicable contagion surrounds the island causing death, devastation, division, lockdowns and inflaming old political wounds among the islanders. The principal drama is framed by a dynamic Chorus element which resists, endangers, sings and dances in unpredictable ways representing our brittle and, at times, susceptible awareness as citizens of the world.