REFUGEE

A new play by Milan Dragicevich 
Music by Tim Eriksen

REFUGEE examines the lives of two Serbian sisters displaced at the El Shatt refugee camp on the Sinai desert during World War II.  Five decades later, their grandchildren, dispersed across two continents find themselves struggling with identity and finding home. The story is loosely based on the historical sojourn of Dragina Kalanj (the playwright's mother), who came to El Shatt as a teenage girl, the beginning of an epic odyssey that thwarted a return to her native land and family until 25 years later. The play explores the memory of family, the search for identity and acceptance in a new land, as well as trying to understand the plight of refugee and how that experience shapes ones destiny and creates generational aftershocks.