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YUE
MADELEINE
YUE
PLAY BY JETON NEZIRAJ
DIRECTED BY: BLERTA RRUSTEMI NEZIRAJ SOUND AND MUSIC COMPOSER: GABRIELE MARANGONI
ACTORS: ANISA ISMAILI, ADRIAN MORINA, KUJTIM PAÇAKU, BAJRAM KINOLLI, FITORE BROQI, FISNIK SYKAJ
MUSICIANS: GABRIELE MARANGONI, SUSANNA TOGNELLA STAGE AND LIGHT DESIGN: NICO DE ROOIJ
CHOREOGRAPHY: GJERGJ PREVAZI COSTUME DESIGNER: DOROTHY BARNES VIDEO: YLL ÇITAKU
ASS. COSTUME DESIGNER: AMBER GIVENS PHOTO: ARMIN BARDEL STAGE MANAGER: ADELINA BERISHA
LIGHTING TECHNICIAN: SKENDER LATIFI TRANSLATION: ANDREA GRILL (GERMAN), AJKUNA HOPPE (ENGLISH),
SHKELZEN MALIQI (SERBIAN) DESIGN: ISHULLI
PRODUCED BY: QENDRA MULTIMEDIA, PRISHTINA RUNNING TIME: 60' MIN LANGUAGE: ALBANIAN, ROMA AND GERMAN
EXISTING SUBTITLES: GERMAN, ENGLISH AND SERBIAN/CROATIAN/BOSNIAN
When it comes to Roma people,
the German democracy sounds to me as a
“Neo-Nazi German-democracy.”
Even if you were born in Germany,
that doesn’t make you a German citizen.
ABOUT THE PLAY
“Yue Medeleine Yue” is the newest play by Kosovo
playwright Jeton Neziraj. On central focus of this
musical tragicomedy of the absurd is a Roma family,
which was forcedly expelled from Germany to Kosovo.
Found in a new reality, this family will have to face
the challenges of the recently newborn state. A Roma
girl, Medeleine, one day falls in a hole opened by a
construction company. And while the girl in coma
fights for her life, her father, striving to pursue justice,
faces bureaucratic officers, businessmen, policemen
and embassy workers. This is a political drama about
chaotic post-war Kosovo, but, before all, it is a drama
about unwanted Roma in Europe. Away from those
common stereotypes about Roma, away from that
exoticism which usually accompanies Roma topics,
“Yue Medeleine Yue” is an intelligent drama that
excellently reviews the emotional process that
thousands of Roma people from Europe undergo,
yielding to violent processes of repatriation.
I think that now, ten years after the end
of the Kosovo war, the German taxpayers
have absolutely no more obligations
toward these people.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Qendra Multimedia, based in Prishtina, Kosovo, is a cultural production company, working in the
field of arts and culture since 2002. Qendra produces and co-produces cultural activities for all
ages; locally and internationally. Its main focus is in contemporary theater and dramaturgy.
Qendra's main theater productions are: “The Least Supper”, “Travel to Unmikistan”, “Aeneas
wounded”, “Gogoli”, “Beni”, “War in times of love”, “Newborn”, “Yue Madeleine Yue”, etc.
Some of our main theater partners we worked with include: Volkstheater - Vienna, Markus
Zohner Theater Compagnie - Lugano, nomad theater- London, L'Espace d'un instant - Paris, Oda
Theater - Prishtina, National Theater of Kosovo - Prishtina, CTC - Skopje, Bitef Theater - Belgrade,
Prizren City Theater - Prizren, CZKD - Belgrade etc. Qendra cooperates with theaters, cultural
institutions, universities, theater schools and art organizations from all around the globe. Since
2002 Qendra organized more than 100 cultural projects in Kosovo as well as in other countries
of Europe, including Serbia, Macedonia, France, Germany, UK, Austria, Albania etc. Qendra’s
productions have been invited to many international theater festivals across Europe and Africa.
But, that the Roma are nasty,
there is no doubt and this
has nothing to do with racism.
I’m not a racist!
?i ko dikhipe dade, ?i ko dikhipe daje
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2012:
Austria (world opening): 24th of February / Volkstheater, Vienna
25th of February / Volkstheater, Vienna
Kosovo:
21st of May / National Theater of Kosovo, Prishtina
Serbia:
23rd of May / CZKD, Belgrade
Croatia:
7th September / Zoom Festival, Rijeka
Germany:
9th of November / euro-scene Leipzig
10th of November / euro-scene Leipzig
This performance is produced in the framework of the project “EU support for the implementation of RAE strategy” - EU SIMRAES
financed by the European Union, managed by EU Office in Kosovo and implemented by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society - KFOS.
Co-financed by: Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans // The Olof Palme International Center
Contact: [email protected] // www.qendra.org // +377 44 186 393