You Think You Know Me – A Play - African Book Festival Berlin
You Think You Know Me, is a gripping one woman play that revolves around the life of one sex worker called Netsy. Through narratives of her life the audience is allowed into many avenues of other sex workers and men who have been in Netsy’s company. Penned and performed by Linda Gabriel the play interrogates controversial themes of transactional sex, religion and other related issues that include Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Child Labour, Forced Child Marriages, Rape, Corruption, Livelihood, Unemployment, Migration, Discrimination. The play is an adaptation from Linda Gabriel’s poem, ‘Sins of our Mothers’ in which a child chronicles what the mother had to endure for the betterment of the child’s life. This time it is no longer the voice of the child but that of the mother asking the world, ‘You Think You Know Me?` How much do we know about sex work besides judging it on moral grounds? Women in the Avenues, streets or at organized lodges and some flats, do they engage in it for personal fulfillment or to fend for a whole chain of beneficiaries? “To engage in transactional sex is like going to war. They will be sacrificing for something to happen.” The play leaves you asking yourself whether you know sex workers fully or you are obsessed by the stereotypes you grew up with about transactional sex work. Linda Gabriel is one of the most exciting performance poets to emerge out of Zimbabwe and one of the few female members of the House of Hunger Poetry Slam in Harare und Johannesburg. A University Of Witwatersrand Johannesburg graduate the 30-year-old powerful orator has been hooked on performance poetry since high school and has since participated in major literary events in Zimbabwe, the rest of southern Africa and Europe. Mostly her work celebrates womanhood and its challenges. Belonging to the so-called born free generation, she uses the stage to tell untold stories and address taboo matters, which reflect a society facing political repression and economic crisis. Written and performed by Linda Gabriel Directed by Zaza Muchemwa
Veranstaltungsort und Adresse
Babylon Berlin, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin
- Sa28.04.201818:30Tickets
Tickets für 28. April 2018
You Think You Know Me – A Play - African Book Festival Berlin
Diese Veranstaltung in Berlin (Bezirk Mitte) wurde von venyoobot veröffentlicht. You Think You Know Me – A Play - African Book Festival Berlin ist den Rubriken Performance und Linda Gabriel zugeordnet.