Description

Continuing his quest to sing with his grandmother who died in Laos in 1944, Vanasay Khamphommala invites his father on stage.<p> Playwright and performer Vanasay Khamphommala never heard her grandmother's voice; she died a few days after her father's birth. On stage, she seeks to reconstruct the abruptly interrupted narrative of a nearly anonymous life, distant in time and space, whose last traces are fading away. Accompanied by her father, she creates an acoustic space in which to perform a duet with her paternal grandmother. Beyond her personal story, an exploration of our individual and collective memories unfolds: the ecology of our recollections, the impact of migration on the transmission of our stories. What we say to each other from one generation to the next, what we don't say—and what we say without saying it.</p>