Led by brothers Khaled and Mohammad Aljawad from Syria, now based in Sheffield, Have Your Passport Ready explores an unknown city without an interpreter as audiences become players collecting evidence to prove their right to remain in the UK.
Have Your Passport Ready is a virtual experience that puts the audience directly in the world of the UK's hostile environment. Led by brothers Khaled and Mohammad Aljawad from Syria, now based in Sheffield, Have Your Passport Ready explores an unknown city without an interpreter as audiences become players collecting evidence to prove their right to remain in the UK.
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This short film-meets-video game was commissioned by Knaïve Theatre to launch the inaugural season of Knaïve Theatre presents: A Digital Lyceum.
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Performers: Khaled Aljawad, Mohammad Aljawad & Rosie MacPherson
Writers: Khaled Aljawad, Mohammad Aljawad & Rosie MacPherson
Director: Rosie MacPherson
Filmmaker: Smart Banda
Producer: John Tomlinson
Designers: Smart Banda & Neo Balasamang
Translator: Khaled Aljawad
Photography: Smart Banda
Production Assistant: Ruth Vassallo
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Arts Council England
Have Your Passport Ready was named ‘Game of the Week’ by The Observer.
★★★★
"A rare documentary piece… an altogether simpler format than Charlie Brooker’s benchmark Netflix extravaganza Bandersnatch, but often just as affecting."
The Guardian
★★★★
"Important and engaging… loaded with gallows humour and crackling with barely suppressed anger."
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