The writer, actor, dancer and director from Rwanda Dorcy Rugamba has also worked with Peter Brook’s company, with Milo Rau and with Abderrahmane Sissako, the director of Timbuktu. Dorcy Rugamba presents the Italian premiere of Hewa Rwanda – Letter to the Absent, following its debut at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and the Festival d’Automne. Adapted from the eponymous work written by Rugamba in 2024 and translated around the world, Hera Rwanda – Letter to the Absent is a memoir to his own children, an eyewitness account of the genocide of the Tutsi perpetrated in 1994, which determined his story as a man and as an artist.
“Hewa Rwanda, Letter to the Absent addresses the genocide, questions of mourning and a family that was nearly annihilated. I primarily wanted it not to be a commemorative text but a hymn to life, so the tone of the text deliberately embraces lightness, humour, poetry, music and life in all its aspects”.
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