Have you ever looked where you were told not to?
Victor Esses decided to celebrate those in his family others would rather erase, offering us stories of a Jewish-Lebanese community including an estranged great aunt, a great-grandfather wrestling with addiction and a gay uncle.
This work-in-progress performance uses performance art, music, sounds and images to explore shame, family history and intergenerational trauma; a celebration of complexity, imperfection, truths and untruths, humanity.
Are you ready to take stock?
Supported by Camden People's Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall and Manchester Jewish Museum. Seed commission from Camden People's Theatre.
This performance will be followed by a Q&A with the creatives involved.
Victor Esses
Victor Esses is a Jewish-Lebanese Brazilian queer theatre maker and performance artist. His practice centres nuanced intersectional auto/biographical stories of belonging, resilience and intimacy, encouraging audiences to ask questions about what makes us most human. His process is studio led, creating archives of memory that serve as pieces in a jigsaw, activated through performance. He uses storytelling, participation, multimedia, and live art to create open entry points into who we are now, and how we might imagine better futures.
He is an associate artist with CASA Festival, and has performed, directed and shown work with Arcola Theatre, HOME, Whitechapel Gallery, Barbican, Forest Fringe, Summerhall, The Lowry, Arts Admin, Soho Theatre, Cambridge Junction, Latitude Festival and more. He recently curated Global Jewish Voices at Bush Theatre and hosted its accompanying podcast.
Website: www.victoresses.com
Twitter: @victoresses
