Performance Storytelling Show
Colonial history has wiped many stories off the map.
In this one woman show Inez Aponte follows a fragile thread back
in
time to meet the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers
that
carried her family to safety and freedom. Mixing tales from
Surinam’s
oral tradition with family history, she explores themes of
home,
rootedness and belonging.
Meet an old crone, shape-shifting animals, brave friends and
magical babies who speak from their mother’s womb.
This is a show about finding your name and keeping your name. It
is about people enslaved for gold and freed by gold.
It is about being Un|Earthed.
“One part memoir, one part family history, another
to
address an overlooked aspect of the Surinamese slave trade, Inez’
show
weaves a beautifully conceived tapestry of autobiography and
folklore.
As a performer, she creates intimacy and trust, and is unflinching
in
her honesty. The best storytellers know great stories take risks.
Inez
is one of them.”
Jon Lavieri, Rhode Island Poet
Tickets:
£10 Full Price/£7.50 Concessions/£5 Youth
Thursday 5th June 7:30pm
Age: 14+
CONTENT: This performance contains descriptions of, or
references to,
colonial and domestic violence contextualised within
historic, personal
and mythic narrative.