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The Tree
Dedicated to Inger Landsted
Characters
Yazidi monks: Luis Alonso, Donald Kitt, Julia Varley
European warlord: Kai Bredholt
African warlord: I Wayan Bawa
Igbo woman: Roberta Carreri
A poet's daughter: Iben Nagel Rasmussen
A poet's daughter as a young girl: Carolina Pizarro
Storytellers: Parvathy Baul, Elena Floris
Deus ex machina: Fausto Pro
The tree of History grows vigorously and dead.
Around it, child-soldiers and praying monks dance together with warlords, a wrathful mother, and the daughter of a poet who, as a child, dreamed of flying away with her father.
Two story-tellers introduce and comment upon characters and events: in the Syrian desert two Yazidi monks plant a pear tree to call back the birds that have disappeared; in Nigeria a mother rests under the shadow of the tree of forgetfulness holding in her arms the head of her daughter hidden in a gourd; a European warlord explains the necessity for ethnic cleansing to an African warlord who performs a human sacrifice to make his army of child soldiers invulnerable before leading them into battle; a girl plays with her dolls around the tree her father planted when she was born, wondering how birds see the earth from the air.
The tree of History finally bends under the weight of fruit and offers a home to the birds that are flying over the heads of the spectators. But what kind of birds are they?
TICKETS
The performance is not suitable for children under the age of 12.
Read more about the performance The Tree here
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PRODUCTION:
Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Holstebro)
The Grotowski Institute/Wroclaw European Capital of Culture 2016 (Poland)
The Hungarian National Theatre (Budapest)