The war delayed everything but didn’t repress our desire to make the show happen in London and to tell the stories of what is still happening to Crimean Tatars. In fact, it made the production and its potential impact on audiences more important than ever.

The fate of the Crimean Tatar people has long troubled me. I often think about this historical injustice. First deportation, half a century in a foreign land, then such a difficult return, eternal building of their homes. And now after the annexation, persecution, again, in their own suffering land.