To Build a Bigger Table
"When you have more than you need, build a bigger table, not a higher wall".
After an incident at school on the last day before half term, Keji, Mo, Amal, Bea and their foster families are called into the headteacher's office. As they unravel what happened, we glimpse the everyday bravery, joy and humanity of foster-care set against the backdrop of child asylum claims.
Written by Lau Batty, To Build a Bigger Table, a co-production with Lightbox Theatre, is an original theatre piece exploring the lived experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in the UK and the foster-carers that support and care for them. Truthful, honouring and celebratory, it tells the untold story of the children who are arguably the most vulnerable in our society, and of those who open their home and set a place of welcome at the dinner table.
More information about To Build a Bigger Table will be announced in 2026.
Photos by Katie Toon
The Oncoming Tide
Charlie finds herself stranded on a Devonshire beach, where she encounters the strange and, rather whimsical Elsbeth. With the evolving knowledge of who Elsbeth is, not the witch she was accused of being, Charlie’s hazy recollection of her evening gradually comes into stark, devastating focus.
More updates coming later in 2026.
