tutaj/ هناك (here/there)
By Bernadette Fam and Monika Pieprzyk
Due to the COVID-19 situation the 2020 season of tutaj/ هناك (here/there) has been cancelled. Please stay tuned for details on the future life of this production.
Photography by: Jasmin Simmons
“Yes, sometimes we smell. Let’s celebrate it.”
World Premiere
How do we begin to describe growing up as a first-gen Australian? First, there’s never knowing whether to call yourself Arabic. Or Polish. Or Australian.
Then there are the smells. Not sweat or BO, but the smells of spices, musk and home which you think are normal until you reach high school and somebody passes you a deodorant can. Nowadays you realise you can't even spell your grandparents names, let alone remember them. Life is a bungle.
Through interdisciplinary performance and cross-cultural dialogue tutaj/هناك (here/there) dissects the intricacies of cultural connection and pickle jars. Egyptians and Poles have more in common than we thought in this earnest, funny, and sometimes heart-breaking quest to relinquish shame at feeling neither here nor there.
Presented by Green Door Theatre Company as a part of Batch Festival.
Originally developed with the support of the Q Theatre Lab—a Penrith Performing and Visual Arts program.
Supported by PYT Fairfield.
Supported by Critical Stages Touring.
Team
BERNADETTE FAM (Creator/Performer/Creative Producer)
TOM HOUGHTON (Lighting Designer)
LILIANA OCCHIUTO (Composer and Sound Designer)
MONIKA PIEPRZYK (Creator/Performer)