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Transporter - Act 1
So, what’s it like round here? The unheard, unbelievable true story of a girl called Maya; forever thirteen, forever on the move.
Funny, fearless and frightening, Transporter explores themes of identity, difference, conflict, and what it means to come or not come from somewhere.
Transporter tells the story of Maya, a girl who is constantly on the move. We meet Maya as she stands on the threshold of a new house in an ordinary city. From this everyday moment an epic story is woven, spanning decades and continents.
Maya - forever thirteen - is both ordinary and extraordinary; schoolgirl, time traveller, shaman. Tales of classroom conflicts, flights across deserts, ice cream dreams and thwarted revolutions weave together, and the local and the global the personal and political collide.
In  a  year  that  witnessed  the  Grenfell  Tower  fire, an unprecedented  rise  in  homeless  families  in  the  UK,  and  entire  populations  on  the  move,  together  we  considered  the  questions:  What  does  home  mean?  Is  there  a safe  place  left  on  Earth?  How  do  we  navigate  our  way  through  a  world that  appears to  be  in  ruins?
Written  and  performed  by  Catherine  Dyson,  in  collaboration  with  Andy  Smith and Lewis  Gibson. 
Developed through Theatr Iolo's artist development programme, Platfform, Transporter was born out of conversations with young people from the city of Newport, South Wales.