Memento: Staged Reading with Student Actors

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Performance Humanities

Thu, May 4, 2023

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Berlind Rehearsal Room, Lewis Center for the Arts

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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A stranger shows up in the main square of a village. He’s expecting to buy the land on behalf of his company, which plans to turn it into a profitable rice field. As he waits for the seller who was supposed to meet him there, he talks with a woman whom he takes to be the caretaker of this land where the vegetation is inexplicably dying. She’s a rebellious woman who speaks in enigmatic language, and makes clear that she feels herself viscerally connected to the earth — a perspective incompatible with the stranger’s project.

Join PTIC for "Memento" by Hala Moughanie, translated from French (Lebanon) and directed by Neil Blackadder, Princeton Translator in Residence.

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Berlind Rehearsal Room, Lewis Center for the Arts

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Neil Blackadder

Neil Blackadder is a German to English and French to English translator and the author of “Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience.” Specializing in theater translation, Blackadder has experience collaborating on fully staged productions as well as readings of his translations, working with a number of theaters in New York City, Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C., Berlin. and elsewhere. He has twice held residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and Writers Omi at Ledig House. His work has often been supported by the Goethe-Institut, as well as by the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. Ph.D. Princeton.

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