HOME - A JOURNEY IN ROOTLESSNESS
What do a drag queen, a man with a refugee background, a poetry slammer and a formerly incarcerated youth have in common?
HOME is a humorous and touching play about four young people's search for a home. The feeling of being at home is a feeling many of us know -- or know to lack. But where does that feeling exist? With the family? In your own body? In a community? Or in a smell?
The young people in the performance have different cultural backgrounds and will invite the audience on a journey into their world through personal narratives, poetry slam, dance, music and rap. A journey that touches on themes such as relationships, the feeling of Danishness, sexuality, placement, parental relationships, frustrations and youth.
“I can sense that there is a definite discourse about people like me by virtue of my non-Western, Muslim background and as a former refugee. Growing up, I have had a hard time figuring out who I am and where I feel at home. I still haven't answered today, but I'd like to break with this black and white discourse here. With HOME, I hope to show that people like me, we are human too. That the way we're talked about is something I and many others can't help but take home with us, and it can keep me sleepless at night.“- Basir Khurrami, Narrator with background as refugee child from Afghanistan.
What do a drag queen, a man with a refugee background, a poetry slammer and a formerly incarcerated youth have in common?
HOME is a humorous and touching play about four young people's search for a home. The feeling of being at home is a feeling many of us know -- or know to lack. But where does that feeling exist? With the family? In your own body? In a community? Or in a smell?
The young people in the performance have different cultural backgrounds and will invite the audience on a journey into their world through personal narratives, poetry slam, dance, music and rap. A journey that touches on themes such as relationships, the feeling of Danishness, sexuality, placement, parental relationships, frustrations and youth.
“I can sense that there is a definite discourse about people like me by virtue of my non-Western, Muslim background and as a former refugee. Growing up, I have had a hard time figuring out who I am and where I feel at home. I still haven't answered today, but I'd like to break with this black and white discourse here. With HOME, I hope to show that people like me, we are human too. That the way we're talked about is something I and many others can't help but take home with us, and it can keep me sleepless at night.“- Basir Khurrami, Narrator with background as refugee child from Afghanistan.
“What the performance raises a big question is whether feeling at home is the responsibility of the individual or whether it is the responsibility of the community. I hope the audience goes from there with some reflection on where they feel at home and what they can do to make sure the people around them feel at home.”
Allan Klie, Performance Manager
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