Thu 12.11.26 —
Wed 13.05.26
La Fête
Anne-Cécile Vandalem / Das Fräulein Kompanie
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A Place of Safety
A Place of Safety
A Place of Safety
19.03.27 — 20.03.27
A Place of Safety
19.03.27 — 20.03.27In A Place of Safety, the Italian collective Kepler-452 boards the Sea-Watch 5, a ship carrying out rescue missions in the Central Mediterranean. What they are looking for is not predetermined. Only the realisation that, just a few kilometres from the European coast, a reality is unfolding that all too often remains out of sight.
During this voyage, 156 people are rescued and later disembarked in La Spezia, a safe haven in Italy, a four-day sail from the rescue site. From that journey emerges a series of conversations, encounters and reflections with rescue workers from various NGOs, including Sea-Watch and Life Support by Emergency. Their stories bring to the stage what continues to unfold at sea, beyond the immediate view of the European continent.
A Place of Safety is the result of an encounter between a theatre company and people who devote part of their lives to civilian rescue operations at sea. At the same time, it is an exercise in drawing attention to the Central Mediterranean as Europe’s blind spot.
What is happening there raises questions about what Europe is, wants to be, and perhaps could become. The work holds up a mirror to a continent that would rather avoid it, but can no longer ignore it.