This month is the last chance to see The Swallowing Dark, a new play depicting the tale of a Zimbabwean refugee.

The new play is being performed at Battersea's Theatre503, following it's premiere at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio last month.

Wil Johnson (Waking the Dead and Adulthood) plays Canaan, a refugee who fled to Britain with his son to escape Robert Mugabe's rule.

The plot follows the review of his refugee status by Martha, played by Allyson Ava-Brown (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and centers on interviews between the two.

It is up to Cannan to avoid returning home by revisiting the horrors he once fled by retelling his story to Martha, showing how a life can hang on the telling of a good story.

Writer Lizzie Nunnery's script is brought to life with the help of the theatre's co-artistic director Paul Robinson.

And despite having only just had it's world première, the play has already been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2010.

The Swallowing Dark is on at Theatre503, Latchmere Pub, Battersea Park Road until November 26.

Tickets cost £14 and £9 concessions. Show starts at 7.45pm.

To book visit http://www.theatre503.com