Broken Pot

“How can I ever pay you back if my water pot gets broken just outside the door?”

 It’s different in the Sudan, not just the environment but the way of life. Young women, standing on the threshold of adulthood, have a rigid, defined future…unless they are educated…but at what cost?

 Mary who is about to enter college to become a teacher is told that she must marry the Chief in order to bring her family money to give them a better life. But this decision has a cost for all the women of the village, in fact in the Sudan, in the future.

From the author:

“My name is James Major. I am 23 and am Sudanese. When war broke out in the Sudan, I was only 10 years old and had never met my family. I escaped with my life to Kenya under the care of a friend where I became a refugee. But nothing is more painful than being called a refugee in life. I was a refugee for 10 years. In 2002, December 23, I applied for a humanitarian visa to come to Australia but it wasn’t until 2005 that I was able to come here. In the last 4 years I’ve been trying to get work and go to school. My life in Australia has since begun to settle but I’m still struggling to fulfil my dreams.

I would like to write and direct a play about child rights in Africa because I want to send a message to the African community in Adelaide that education is more valuable in life than money. I also want this message to get back to Africa through the people who come to see my play.”