Author: Karen Babayan

Adapted for the stage by Karen Babayan and Persia Babayan-Taylor. Swallows and Armenians is a fascinating story of friendship and family, love and jealousy, with a good measure of sailing thrown in! Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons is a classic book about children having adventures on a lake. The Walker family have always been depicted as quintessentially English but what is not widely known is that Ransome modelled his characters on an Anglo-Armenian family from Aleppo, Syria. This joyous actor-musician production delves into the fascinating but often fractured relationship between the author and the Altounyan family. Swallows and Armenians champions…