Laila Soliman – WANASET YODIT

Two women from Soltau, Abir Omer and Yodit Akbalat, fled from Sudan to northern Germany several years ago. In 2019 they and four other women from the group My Body Belongs to Me have brought a documentary project of the same name about genital mutilation and being a woman* onto the stage, with dance and songs. They met the Egyptian director Laila Soliman and developed the idea for Wanaset Yodit – a coffee ceremony with Yodit, Abir and the audience. Due to the pandemic and the resulting lockdown, the team had to change their plans: For Theaterformen 2020 the work was premiered in the form of an installation on site in Braunschweig and by post. In a cosy atmosphere with coffee, the audience* can listen to Yodit’s story as an audio/video installation and get in touch with the two friends by phone.

In the live version the living room of Abir and Yodit becomes a stage, the audience sits comfortably on cushions and listens to the stories of the two women in Arabic and German. Here too, they tell their story with a lot of humour. These are stories that we often hear in the media from men, but too seldom from women as main protagonists. Coffee is drunk together and Yodit reads the future from shells to the audience*.

A co-production with the festival Theaterformen 2020, Kaserne Basel, Theater Bremen and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden.

With thanks to the expert committee for dance & theatre Basel-Stadt & Basel-Landschaft.

The installation and the live version can be seen at different locations (see shows)

SHOWS

TEAM

BOOKING

Hellerau - European Centre for the Arts, Dresden

Friday, 19. November 2021, 20:30

Saturday, 20. November 2021, 17:00

Saturday, 20. November 2021, 20:30

KASERNE BASEL - LIVE PERFORMANCE

Friday, 20. November 2020, 18:30

Saturday, 21. November 2020, 18:30

Sunday, 22. November 2020, 17:00

THEATER BREMEN - LIVE PERFORMANCE - CANCELLED

Thursday, 12. November 2020, 17:00 Premiere

Thursday, 12. November 2020, 20:00

Friday, 13. November 2020, 17:00

Friday, 13. November 2020, 20:00

Saturday, 14. November 2020, 14:00

Saturday, 14. November 2020, 18:00

Sunday, 15. November 2020, 11:00

Sunday, 15. November 2020, 16:00

SPRING UTRECHT - INSTALLATION - CANCELLED

Saturday, 7. November 2020,

Sunday, 8. November 2020,

Monday, 9. November 2020,

FESTIVAL THEATERFORMEN BRAUNSCHWEIG - INSTALLATION

Thursday, 2. July 2020, 17:00 - 21:00 Premiere

Friday, 3. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Saturday, 4. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Sunday, 5. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Monday, 6. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Tuesday, 7. July 2020, 17:00 - 21:00

Wednesday, 8. July 2020, 17:00 - 21:00

Thursday, 9. July 2020, 17:00 - 21:00

Friday, 10. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Saturday, 11. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

Sunday, 12. July 2020, 15:00 - 21:00

By and with

Yodit Akbalat, Abir Omer

Concept, Direction

Laila Soliman

Concept, Stage Design

Moïra Gilliéron

Concept, Sound Design, Camera

Nancy Mounir

Video editing

Ahmed Al Saaty

Translation

Khalda Yagoob.Panthea

Production

Swantje Möller, Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK

Franziska Schmidt

franziska@prdouktionsdock.ch