"I'm No Hero"

Directed By Maggie Ford

Film Maker Roger Knott-Fayle

"We look through a window at the people who stand on the street corners of history - on the edges of world events - but do any of us stand alone?"

I'm no Hero is a new multi-media docu-drama theatre performance for young people and adult audiences touring in January 2009 to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

I'm No Hero weaves the true stories of Irena Sendler who smuggled 2,500 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Warsaw to safety in potatoes sacks and bodybags, together with Rachel Corrie, a young American who in 2003, stood up for the lives of ordinary Palestinians only to lose her life under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer.

This production will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the way both past and current conflicts affect people’s lives. In exploring how, as a society, we can become impotent under religious and political labeling; the play raises the question,

 Why do ordinary people do something extraordinary for people they don’t even know?

"Fact based theatre calls attention to, and thus questions,

the credibility of the evidence on which we base our view of the world"

David Edgar The Guardian 27th September 2008

Tours from: 19th to 30th January 2009

Time	Date	Venue
7.30pm	Saturday 24th January	The Old Library Theatre Leeming Street, Mansfield, NG18 1NG
1.30pm	Monday 26th January	The Old Library Theatre Leeming Street, Mansfield, NG18 1NG
7.30pm	Tuesday 27th January	NCN Clarendon College Pelham Avenue, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG5 1AL
7.30pm	Thursday 29th January	Newark Palace Theatre** Appletongate, Newark, NG24 1JY
2.00pm	Friday 30th January	University of Derby, Markeaton Street Campus, Pybus Street, Derby, DE22 3AW
7.30pm	Friday 30th January	University of Derby Markeaton Street Campus, Pybus Street, Derby, DE22 3AW

BOX OFFICE: 0845 32938013: (tickets £5 Concessions £3)

**BOX OFFICE: Newark Palace Theatre: 01636 655755 (tickets £10 Concessions £8)