Please Repeat After Me

Please Repeat after me text and credits ‘I have millions of reasons to be crazy, give me one reason to be sane!’ Through designing mistakes that look real on stage, Please, Repeat after me, provokes several topics: representing identity on stage, theatre tradition, relationship to the audience, and the imbalance of power between cultures. it is a drama about decision making, mistakes making and labels. The play pretends to represent ‘real’ testimonies about ‘real’ incidents told by ‘real’ refugees. At times, when anything can happen, anything can be real, and any stereotype is accepted, myths are written. Was the whole representation a mistake? When does the stereotype stop being a stereotype? When does the refugee stop being a refugee? When does the actor stop being an actor? Credits Written and directed by Ziad Adwan Actors: Atilla Akinci Gizem Akman Shadi Ali Selin Kavak Enad Marouf Hussein Shatheli Ziad Adwan Set Design: Theresa Scheitzenhammer Light Design: Reiner Ludwig Music: Youmni Abou Al Zahab Choreography: Mey Seifan Production Manager: Theresa Maria Schlichtherle Stipendium: Kulturreferat Muenchen Theater Projektfoerderung Special thanks Sulafa Hijazi Tammam Azzam, Wadeea Ferzly, Hazem Saleh --------------------------------------------------------- Please, Repeat after me follows a theoretical research on mistakes and making mistakes in theatre, an exploration that started with the play Meanwhile, a play about the representation of folk authentic performances to foreign audience. It is also based on a PhD thesis which Ziad Adwan obtained in 2008 at Royal Holloway University of London on Mistakes and Making Mistakes in Cultural Representations.