You’ve been Needing Sadness. A Research in Progress by Sunni Lamin Barrow
Open: 20:30 - 21:15 hrs
Tickets: € 12,50 + consumptiemunt / Stadspas Groene Stip: €4,50
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Four artist, four residencies, four new stories in the making. In August, our venue will become both a workspace and a base for artists who challenge boundaries and explore visions of the future. From poetry to queerness and puppetry to magic: welcome to the work-in-progress of tomorrow's performing arts.
From July 21st to August 2nd, the first artist-in-resident, Sunni Lamin Barrow, will be working on a research in progress at the theatre.
You’ve been Needing Sadness
A Research in Progress by Sunni Lamin Barrow
This is a research. Not yet a performance. Not yet finished. Not even fully formed, it's still discovering itself....
“You’ve Been Needing Sadness” is an ongoing research project exploring the reconfiguration of spoken word poetry into theater. I am developing a distinct genre (spoken word theater) where the raw emotionality of spoken word meets the formal structures of contemporary soundscapes, opera, ritual, and theatrical histrionics.
This work is still taking shape.
On August 2nd, I will share a 20 minute excerpt from the research, followed by an open conversation with the audience around the theme of grief.
I invite the audience to bring along an object, a text, or a small souvenir, something that holds a memory now distant. Together, we will reflect on the many forms of grief we carry. Thereby centering the personal, we seek to touch the universal.
This is an invitation to sit together in union of our grieves, not as something to be resolved, but something to be recognized, shared, and transformed.
Love and Light,
Sunni
https://youtu.be/Lniif58z2U0?si=urW4wMvaedJ7L7tD