My Homeland is a suitcase
Duration: 1 hour 15
Genre: Site-specific travelling performance
Directing: Aude Lorrillard
Interpreters/singers: Aude Lorrillard, Sébastien Olivier, Vita Malahova, Nirina Ralaivola
Music: Nirina Ralaivola, Alberto Barberis, Aude Lorrillard
Costumes: I Patom Theatre & Deborah Erin Parini.
My Homeland is a Suitcase (title borrowed from the Palestinian poet
Mahmud Darwish) is an itinerant musical theater piece about the
emigration of a young woman leaving her village -her homeland- to reach the city.
During a performative odyssey, coloured by traditional singing, the characters of this rural epic, talk about their ancestor's traditions and question modernity; which can transform, forget or reinvent them.
When the time comes to leave one's homeland, that we've loved through habit and hated through boredom, what will we fill our suitcase with? What do we keep with ourselves? Despite ourselves? Do we recover our traditions elsewhere ? Do we wish to recover them? Must one really leave?
My Land is a Suitcase invites the public to witness a departure, and while following the doubts and pathways of the young woman, raises the theme of transmission -and its transformations- through generations