Review of Sister Tree

Review of Sister Tree

On the 18^th October an act called Sister Tree who is based in Birmingham; Lozells came to our school and performed.

Sister tree is a group act that performs all around Birmingham schools and act about Immigration and people seeking Asylum in the UK. Its aims are to educate the audience about the hopes, fears that migrants feel & how they are treated

The performance that sister tree had performed today was about Foreign people trying to seek asylum in the United Kingdom. The three people were portraying the lives of an African, French and an Asian migrant. They were showing how they live their lifestyles in there native countries. They had went through by describing who there character was by packing there suit cases then they had pretended to flown to England. The transition they had from scene to scene was the school bell were they would run around until they got in class. Then they started to act as if they were in school. The French girl was getting terrorised by the ordinary school girls but then made friends by teaching them French swears which showed hat she did have something in common with her new classmates. The Asian was in a 50/50 situation by trying to answer the question. She was being told not to answer the question by one side of her brain and the other side was telling her to answer the question.

The arts that were explored in the performance were singing, dancing, drama and also costume designing.

The qualities of the performance for me personally were great. It was good because of they way they performed it because they had got the audience involved with the performance to such as, the singing and a little bit of dancing. The humour that they used was very effective but it had made a good point about new comers trying to seek asylum such as, the Asian woman had a funny accent and the French had her French accent which was hard to understand. They also engaged us by showing us the traditions of there cultures by the Asian dancing, the African being enthusiastic and the French talking about her food tastes.

The impact that the performance had on helping me realise how hard it is for asylum seekers to fit in immediately in the UK. At first I thought it would take them a couple of weeks for them to settle in, but it does take patience and tolerance for and immigrant to settle in a work itself out.

I would recommend this performance for people of all ages, although the people might find he humour a bit childish but it does make a point about asylum seekers trying to settle in the UK.