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Stratford Circus Upfront East presents International Women’s Week 2010. If you’re looking to celebrate International Women’s Week then look no further than Stratford Circus.

In a Thousand Pieces is a touching and delicate depiction of the isolated and brutal world home to thousands of women forced into the British sex trade.

They play is about a young Eastern European who woman arrives at a London airport with a new jacket, a £10 note, a small suitcase and a passport. Before she's quite aware what is happening, her passport is missing and she's in a car.

England, she thought, would be green, like a picture book, a polite, moral society. Over the next few weeks she is moved from London to Leicester, then Manchester, then Plymouth,  being violated  five, eight, 10 times a day.

Before too many weeks have passed, she has been abused 1,500 times. Bearing in mind £1,500 was paid for her, that's £1 per abuse.

‘It is absorbing, essential and surprisingly lovely viewing.’
The Stage

In a Thousand Pieces has won many awards over the last few years:

• Fringe First award winners 2008
• Shortlisted for Total Theatre’s ‘Best Young Company’
• Amnesty International ‘Freedom of Expression Award’

The Stage’s ‘Best Ensemble’ 2008