The seeds of Un-Earth were planted years ago and lie in witness testimonies to the horrors of Bosnia and the role of Birmingham in offering refugees asylum.
MacProductions joined forces with Birmingham-based theatre group The Resurrectionists to combine the two and develop a largescale community project.
First they put the call out for people who had escaped the horrors of Bosnia and moved to Birmingham to tell their stories.
Once these tales were collected they were developed into a show which features more than 150 professionals, community actors and children from local schools.
"There are four strands to the story," says development director Graeme Rose. "There is the mother's story, inspired by a Bosnian woman in Edgbaston, a soldier's story from a UN peace keeper who lives in Smethwick, a journalist's story which we developed from talking to BBC journalist Nick Thorpe and the Good Serb.
"We have actors aged from nine to 64 and while some of them have quite extensive experience of acting, others have never done anything like this before."
And the show will also directly involve the audience as it takes place at different locations in and around mac, the Cannon Hill Park arts centre.
"We are using spaces that mac audiences are not used to seeing and moving around so it is very much an experiential piece," says Graeme.
"We are creating a piece which operates on many different levels. We want it to be exciting, disturbing, scary but also beautiful. It is a very relevant aspect of the whole experience that we also look at what is happening in Bosnia now.
"There are survivors spread across the world but many of them are missing loved ones. There is a project going on in Bosnia to try to link these survivors with remains of the 8,000 missing people. It is a long and difficult process but it allows people the chance of reconciliation with the past and with themselves."
