After the success of "Letters from Luxembourg" in 2016, the artists' collective MASKéNADA is organising a reprisal of this multicultural and multilingual production at Carré (ancien Carré Rotondes at 1 rue de l'Aciérie, L-1112 Luxembourg-Hollerich)
This moving 90 minute theatre piece brings together Luxembourg based artists and refugees, carrying the audience through an emotional journey through songs created by Serge Tonnar, scenes devised from letters written by the refugees, and fast-paced movement, choreographed by the talented Sylvia Camarda.
Who are these people? They may be without papers, but not without paper. Oh have they got paper! Official papers, letters, authorizations, passports, … But who are these people? They could be the survivors from a lost civilization, our civilization, from which would remain only a paper trail, papers and letters that have no more meaning, or get new meanings. They come from Luxembourg, Syria, France, Canada, Portugal, Palestine, Iraq, Cape Verde, Italy. But what does that mean, when a passport has become merely a piece of paper?
Refugees and performers from Luxembourg come together in this creation by Sylvia Camarda and Serge Tonnar, based on letters that the refugees wrote from Luxembourg: real or imagined messages, letters home, love letters, even excerpts from official letters from immigration lawyers. These letters from Luxembourg contain humour and sadness, homesickness and hope. Paper is the support for these letters, and these people of the paper, these refugees of today, will be the ancestors of the new Luxembourgers in 100 years.
Public representations: 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 June @ 20:00
School representations: 27 and 28 June @ 09:30 (register for the school shows by email: dani.jung@maskenada.lu)
Languages: English, French, Arabic (with subtitles), Luxembourgish
Tickets : €20 Adult, €8 Student, from www.maskenada.lu or email: letters@maskenada.lu or tel: 2748-9382
Cast: Alaa Alsaidi, Alexandre Hornbeck, Aude Kerivel, Aude-Laurence Clermont, Catherine Elsen, Diogo Fernandes, Gianfranco Celestino, Haider Rahmatullah, Hussein Allami, Karar Edani, Linda Bonvini, Martine Kohn, Muhammed Yehia Sheikhouney, Nour Jaara, Omer Omer Khalaf, Philippe Noesen, Shahem Dablat, Tara Donnell, Tarek Alnabhan, Véronique Sere, Wafaa Abo Zarifa, Zaman Almuttairi
In coproduction with "Mir wëllen iech ons Heemecht weisen"; In collaboration with "CERCLE EUROPEAN POUR LA PROPAGATION DES ARTS (CEPA)"; With the support of the Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte (Initiative MATENEEN), The Ministry of Culture, la Ville de Luxembourg and le Service de Coordination de la Recherche et de l’Innovation pédagogiques et technologiques (SCRIPT)
