Among You
Je promène ma mélancolie parmi vous / by Thomas Depryck
Zwinger 1
[recommended for ages 16 and up]
Who are we if we don’t live in our home anymore? What happens in our bodies when the language we speak every day is not our mother tongue? Why do Europeans feel uprooted in Europe? »Among You« is a performance in French and German that works without surtitles. A journey between Belgium and Germany and a profession of love to multilingualism and to Europe. An ode to constant adaptation and translation.
Director Suzanne Emond grew up in Belgium with French and Slovakian. Since 2016, she has been living in Germany and regularly works with German and English. »Among You« is the second time she is working with renowned Belgian author Thomas Depryck who among others won the Internationaler Autor*innenwettbewerb (International Writers’ Competition) of Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2016.
You can read a conversation (in German) between Suzanne Emond, translator Frank Weigand and dramaturge Maria Schneider about their work together and the challenges of the rehearsal process at plateforme.de.
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
A complete list of all employees of the technical departments involved can be found here.
Listen to an introduction by Maria Schneider in German here.
Listen to an introduction by Maria Schneider in French here.
Trailer by Siegersbuschfilm