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My Friend Selma
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TEARING apart thousands of families and displacing over 600,000 refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1989 and 1992 alone, the Bosnian war was one of the most bitter European conflicts of the last century.
But My Friend Selma, written and performed by Victoria Beesley for the theatre company Terra Incognita theatre company, doesn't concern itself with facts and figures. In fact, the words “Bosnia” and “war” are not even mentioned and we only hear the word “refugee” well into the second half of the 45-minute piece.
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