Mein Haus ist schwarz / Ma Maison est noire
- Location:
- Junges Ensemble Stuttgart, Eberhardstraße 61a, 70173 Stuttgart
A guest performance in French with German translation assistance.
In cooperation with the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart and the Institut français Stuttgart.
What does it mean to rediscover one’s own voice when it is meant to be silenced?
*Ma Maison est noire* explores the themes of freedom, memory, and a woman’s right to determine her own body, her history, and her art. The play combines personal experience with the universal question of women’s place in societies where expression and self-determination are restricted.
*Ma Maison est noire* is based on the writings of the Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad, one of the most significant voices of Iranian modernism.
Actress and director Mina Kavani creates a poetic dialogue between two women from different generations: Forough Farrokhzad, whose work was banned in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, and Mina Kavani herself, who had to leave her homeland to be able to work freely as an artist.
Poems, letters, interviews, and images come together to form a personal yet political narrative about exile, censorship, women’s freedom, and the power of art.