British Youth Music Theatre

2011 saw the death of Brian Haw, the extraordinary anti-war campaigner who camped outside the Houses of Parliament for 11 years in protest first at the sanctions against Iraq and then against the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The performers and writers James Atherton and Sarah Nelson, working with Brian’s son, Pete Haw, create a new political work by relating Haw’s non-violent protest to the response to 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the deaths of British soldiers of young Britons and their peers around the world. The voice of worldwide youth takes shape through stunning original music and lyrics singing a universal hymn of peace.