Das Gelobte Land (The promised land)
by Asiimwe Deborah Kaweby Asiimwe Deborah Kawe
Turn of the year 2017/18, USA - in two different places in the state of Texas, two women tell their stories: Achen, a trained nurse who travelled to the USA from Uganda fifteen years ago for a university seminar on women's health and stayed, and Kat, then an intern in the seminar's organisation team. Many years later, their lives cross again - a fateful reunion. The (first) Trump administration's «zero tolerance policy» towards immigrants is having a devastating effect.
Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, playwright, theatre maker and co-director of the Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF), Uganda, tells the story of the life of an undocumented immigrant in her play. Like so many others, the nurse Achen, the author's main character, contributes with her labour and as a taxpayer to the prosperity of a country that has decided to expel her overnight.
The world premiere production of «Das Gelobte Land» at Residenztheater is the first time a work by Hungarian director Jakab Tarnóczi will be shown in Munich. Tarnóczi is the resident director and part of the artistic management team at the renowned Katona József Theatre in Budapest.
«Das Gelobte Land» was created as part of the author's several-month residency in the WELT/BÜHNE programme, platform for international contemporary drama.
