“War is not the answer. Peace is the answer. On the other hand…”

Between 1989 and 2003 the Civil War in Liberia saw over 200,000 people killed, a million
others displaced into refugee camps, and over 15,000 children recruited into ‘Small Boys
Units’.

First-time writer Diana Nneka Atuona’s award-winning play tells one teenage girl’s story of
survival.

Diana Nneka Atouna won the 2013 Alfred Fagon Award for her first play, Liberian
Girl, while still unproduced. She attended the Royal Court’s Peckham Writers Group, as
part of Theatre Local – the Royal Court’s project to take plays to alternative spaces,
sponsored by Bloomberg.