Un|Earthed – Of Mothers, Grandmothers and Freedom

Artist: Inez Aponte

Sunday, November 9

Duration: 90 min (including a break)

Start: 15:30

End: 17:00

Price: € 16

Language: EN
Location: Studio

Magical realism and folktale collide with ancestral memory in a beautifully woven search for belonging

About the show:

Colonial history has wiped many stories off the map.

In this one woman show Inez Aponte follows a fragile thread back in time to meet the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers that carried her family to safety and freedom. Mixing tales from Surinam’s oral tradition with family history, she explores themes of home, rootedness and belonging.

Meet an old crone, shape-shifting animals, brave friends and magical babies who speak from their mother’s womb.

This is a show about finding your name and keeping your name.

It is about people enslaved for gold and freed by gold.

It is about being Un|Earthed.

Bio:

Inez Aponte is a warm and vibrant performer with a background in dance, visual art and theatre improvisation. A storyteller of Puerto Rican and Surinamese descent, raised in the USA and the Netherlands, her performances reflect the richness of a life shaped at the meeting point of cultures.

Trained in dance, theatre and voice work she discovered performance storytelling in 1997 and has appeared at numerous festivals and events including West Country Storytelling Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Vertelfestival Utrecht, Providence Inner City Arts and WOMAD. Her teachers and mentors include storytellers Ben Haggarty, Jan Blake, Michael Harvey, Abbi Patrix, choreographer Janis Claxton, voice teacher Briony Greenhill & theatre director John Wright.

Credits:

Written and devised by Inez Aponte

Dramaturgy by Michael Harvey