Locked away in a refugee shelter, women, who have arrived from different corners of the world, enact endless games and intimate micro-performances to reveal their hidden identities. They give expression to themselves in a language that’s taking shape in front of those present, a language they’ll never fully master. Teetering between audition and job interview, the tone of the encounter is gradually changing. The question of identity is taking the back seat but dignity is standing its ground, a dignity they can have NOW, not posthumously.
In part inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids, this piece incorporates excerpts from JeanPierre Siméon’s Stabat Mater Furiosa, Dimitris Dimitriadis’ I’m Dying as a Country and from the Constitution of the French Republic.