PLAY
A multilingual theatre play generated from an artistic approach to the theme mother tongue, about the vision of understanding across borders
For those learners who have lost their homeland, the mother tongue reminds them of the past, of another country and of their own mother
MILLE E UNO, TAUSEND UND EINE, THOUSAND AND ONE (Theatrical Play)
A multilingual theatre play generated from an artistic approach to the theme mother tongue, about the vision of understanding across borders. Boat People Project and MALTE produce this theatre play in which the learners themselves develop scenes in their mother tongues, guided by the professional playwrights Sonia Antinori (Italy) and Luise Rist (Germany) and their teams. Shyness and timidity have a place, they are human and need not be hidden in theatre. What does fear look like, how do I show it, for example with a silent gesture? Body language and musical elements are used to talk about oneself in a creative way. The play is the result of an artistic approach to the theme “mother tongue” and about the vision of understanding across borders. For those learners who have lost their homeland, the mother tongue reminds them of the past, of another country and of their own mother. Each of us has absorbed rules of life with the mother tongue. The rehearsals start dialogues with the simplest and yet most difficult questions: Not one narrative emerges, but a thousand threads that tell many stories and contexts. Through the mother tongue we come to values and norms. The play includes theatrically presented scenes about democratic participation, about culture, rules and religion, about diversity in relationships, and about the challenge of climate change.
