Theatre: Travelling in former colonies
Following the exhibition theatre ‘A Gesture to Find’ (2012), ‘Travelling in former colonies’ is the first major production by Theatre Workshop Pilkentafel that explicitly confronts the Flensburg audience with its own colonial history. The play is based on two journeys: a trip to Namibia in 2009 and a trip to the Virgin Islands in 2014. An announcement text reads: “These journeys were self-experiments, we held ourselves up as litmus test strips in a field of conflict. The impressions were disparate, sometimes bleak, sometimes absurd, often inexplicable, leaving us perplexed”. The duo’s real-life travel impressions are woven into many scenes, while others are based on historical documents.
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