Seeking Survival

Project summary

TIE-PROGRAMME: SEEKING SURVIVAL, BY EVENTUS SEEKING SURVIVAL is a TIE-programme about refugees. Why do people flee their own country? What is the situation in the country that makes them flee? What happen to the refugees on their flight? What is the situation in the new country? How are they being treated there? These are some of the issues that are being addressed in the programme first through drama work and then in the performance. . PART 1: The participants are being framed as people of Kombarra (a fictional country), who have decided to flee their country. They are taken on a journey with one of the actor teachers as the leader of the flight. On the journey we meet different challenges. Our actions are being reacted upon. We meet the two other actor-teachers as military guards at the boarder. Some participants can continue their journey and some are taken aside. Nobody knows what will happen next. We end this session with writing in role (diary/letter/poem) PART 2: The play: "Seeking Survival". Here we meet one of the refugees. The scenes present different episodes of her life both before and after fleeing the country. The participants are framed as journalists who are going to find out more about the situation of Kombarra before they watch the play. After the play there is an open interview/interrogation situation. The participants as journalists decide on who they would like to interview. Later they present headlines and images before we end the programme with the voices in the head of the refugee combined with reading parts of their diaries.