Two years ago, Artistic Director Caryne Chapman Clark had a dream to start a theatrical organisation for refugee artists in London. Her initial search to find actors who had fled their countries drew a number of blanks before she stumbled upon a Refugee Artists Exchange Day. The arts organisation she has founded as a result, Artists in Exile (AiE), has developed so fast it’s now moving towards artists’ self government which, she says, was the initial goal.
‘As soon as I moved to London I had a notion what I really wanted to do was to start up a professional theatre company that was made largely of unprofessional exile actors,’ Clark recalls.
