Roots
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written and performed by Wanjiku Mwawuganga
dramaturgy Leila Anderson 

ROOTS is an interdisciplinary project which uses physical, oral, and audiovisual storytelling to investigate intersectionality and motherhood. The relationships between mothers and daughters are followed across five generations. The Kenyan actress and directress Wanjiku Mwawuganga conducts interviews with the women who raised her and examines the physical memory in relation to the memory captured in a photograph. ROOTS wants to create an understanding for the complex, reciprocal connections of vulnerability and alienation with regard to the family and an intergenerational memory.

ROOTS is a part of the artistic exchange programme Maabara Exchange Theatre of the author and theatre maker Ogutu Muraya. This project shall offer space for trying things out, in the framework of which one is able to work in a practice oriented as well as an experimental manner. 

Production Maabara Exchange Theatre 
Co-production SPIELART Theaterfestival I Zürcher Theaterspektakel 
​Realization in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut

ROOTS recently performed in Figurentheater Festival, Germany & the National Arts Festival, South Africa.

Photography Tobias Zangl   [SPIELART Theaterfestival 2021]