And then a stranger person came in | Scenic reading

von: Maja Das Gupta, Volker Lüdecke, Mîrza Metîn, Ulrike Syha, Wajiha Said, Helîm Yûsiv

With Aziz Çapkurt, David Fischer, Sevim Kesbir, Bettina Marugg, Andreas Meidinger, Gıyasettin Uçun

Scenic setup Frank Heuel, Annika Ley

Translation Nihat Mert

Assistant Jennifer Merten

Performance 27th of April, 2019, theaterimballsaal  Bonn

In the performative reading AND THEN A STRANGER PERSON CAME IN the results of the previous work of nexus were presented. The workshops, in which Kurdish and German theatrical creators and authors worked together, dealt with questions of the artistic homeland, the search for forms of cooperation, the handling of various theatrical traditions and multilingualism on stage.

On Kurmancî and German the Kurdish-German ensemble presented in AND THEN A STRANGER PERSON CAME IN Texts of the nexus authors Maja Das Gupta, Volker Lüdecke, Mirza Metin, Wajiha Said, Ulrike Syha and Helim Yusiv, who in dialogue and exchange in one of the Workshops and subsequently emerged.

A project by fringe ensemble and nexus. nexus is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of “Arts in Intercultural Dialogue”.