Performed Reading
This Play speaks about people who were separated from families, became homeless, for things they weren't even responsible for. They are struggling for survival because of the great war of Vietnam.
In the 1980s, many Vietnamese families were struggling for existence and after the contract between sister-states some of them shifted to socialist countries. In this play, we see the people who got residence in Germany. Germany was already divided into two parts west and east back then.
And real struggle begin when German people of both sides suddenly start demanding for one German country. Now the Vietnamese know that they have no place in this new uniting country.
For Vietnamese, the question remains - if this whole country is uniting then why are we not part of it? What is unification? Does unification mean uniting people? or uniting people, against people?
The Playwright:
Thomas Köck was born in Upper Austria in 1986 and works as an author and playwright. He studied philosophy in Vienna and at the Free University, Berlin as well as Scenic Writing and Film Studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
His documentary film on the civil war in Lebanon was invited to the Berlin Film Festival’s TALENTS programme and nominated for the Bosch Foundation Young Filmmaker’s Prize. His plays are published by Suhrkamp Verlag and have been performed at various theatres including the Akademietheater Vienna, Thalia Theatre Hamburg, the Ruhrfestspielen Recklinghausen, Schauspielhaus Vienna and the Karlsruhe State Theatre. He has been a writer-in-residence at the National Theatre Mannheim and the winner of many awards including the Else-Lasker-Schüler Prize, the Austrian Theatre Alliance Playwriting Prize, the Thomas Bernhard Scholarship and most recently the Kleist Prize for Most Promising Playwright. Together with other authors he was also joint founder of the blog ‘nazisundgoldmund.net’ dealing with the political shift to the right across Europe.
Cast:
Vaishnavi Ratna Prashant, Surabhi Dhamal, Swapnil Gandhi
Crew:
Name of the Group: Natakwale
Directed by: Milan Rathod
Music Operation - Mayur Agam
Lights Operation - Sarthak Chaskar
Production - Priyanka Nagarkar
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