The Colony · Limited

While the outside world filters in through reportage of bombings and sectarian violence, the true battle is fought in the silences between four generations of a single fishing family.

Ultimately, the piece explores the "gradual death" of a culture as English emerges as a global force. It forces a confrontation with the fundamental question of colonization: who owns the narrative of a place? Is it those who have lived there for generations, or those who arrive with the tools to record it, paint it, and define it for the rest of the world? On this unnamed island, the landscape is beautiful, but the odds are stacked against its survival. The Colony

Are you focusing your piece on a specific character’s , or The Colony – Audrey Magee - Radhika's Reading Retreat While the outside world filters in through reportage