Wanted: ME – without a background and gender-neutral.
Who really knows who they are? Every society is happy to help (itself) in this regard and has fixed role models at the ready. Does this bring a person any closer to their own identity? Doubtful! What if a man or woman also strongly disagrees with this image, or has even immigrated from a country with different notions of gender roles? Then the issue of identity and self-assertion becomes even more complicated.
The Italian macho Adamo has to play the housewife because Eva is the breadwinner. Amina, a transgender person, has fled persecution, and the young ‘Old Fritz’ declares: ‘Everyone is free to be miserable in their own way.’
‘Immigro ergo sum’ is a view through a kaleidoscope. Like pieces of a jigsaw, the actors shift back and forth between roles and languages, constantly reforming, settling into a role and then breaking it down again – sometimes a dance, sometimes a fight, always a struggle for the right to exist.
The play is performed in three languages with surtitles.
Written by Pauline Garnier, Luca Paglia and Eugenia Fabrizi
Directed by Eugenia Fabrizi and Luca Paglia
with: Leonie Renée Klein, Charlotte Welling, Heza Botto and Luca Paglia
