A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world.
The Elders (Os Anciaos) is a play starring actors between 12 and 18 years old, set 40 years in the future, who play politicians 40 years older than they are.
Inside an empty cardboard box big enough for two adults to sit in, you meet a stranger. A stranger who wasn’t born here. They want to make you feel at home. After they’ve made you tea, they ask you to think about a room, from any point in your life, that reminds you the most of home.
‘Where were the doors and where were the windows?’
In 1956, there was a popular uprising against the USSR in Hungary. The battle was fought primarily from the Corvin Cinema, and the uprising lead to one of the largest refugee crises of the twentieth century.
“As soon as I finish speaking you will clap. Even those of you who were a bit bored will clap because it’s a comfortable way to signal an ending.”
Baby Steps is the winner of the 2023 Honours for Eurodram – the European Network for Drama in Translation.
A 24 Hour Live Performance, filmed and streamed in Lahore, Pakistan. Starring Sarmad Khoosat, created collaboratively by Olomopolo, Ryan Van Winkle and Deborah Pearson, from a concept by Ryan Van Winkle.
I said, are you ready to laugh?