Das Gelobte Land (The promised land)
by Asiimwe Deborah Kaweby Asiimwe Deborah Kawe
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Asiimwe Deborah Kawe tells the story of an undocumented immigrant's life achievement. Like so many others, the nurse Achen, the author's main character, contributes with her labour and as a taxpayer to the prosperity of a country that has decided to expel her overnight.
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Turn of the year 2017/18, USA - in two different places in the state of Texas, two women tell their stories: Achen, a trained nurse who travelled to the USA from Uganda fifteen years ago for a university seminar on women's health and stayed, and Kat, then an intern in the seminar's organisation team. Many years later, their lives cross again - a fateful reunion. Because the (first) Trump administration's «zero tolerance policy» towards immigrants is having a devastating effect.
I don't have to be accepted,
to live where I want.
Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, playwright, theatre maker and co-director of the Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF), Uganda, tells the story of the life's work of an undocumented immigrant in her play. Like so many others, the nurse Achen, the author's main character, contributes with her labour and as a taxpayer to the prosperity of a country that has decided to expel her overnight.
The world premiere production of «Das Gelobte Land at the Residenztheater is the first time a work by Hungarian director Jakab Tarnóczi has been staged in Munich. Tarnóczi is the resident director and part of the artistic management team at the renowned Katona József Theatre in Budapest.
«The Promised Land» was created as part of the author's residency of several months in the WELT/BÜHNE programme, a platform for international contemporary drama.
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About the author
Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, born in Uganda in 1973, is an author, director and performer. She studied music, dance and theatre at Makerere University in Kampala-Uganda, as well as Writing for Performance at the California Institute of the Arts.
In addition to numerous theatre texts such as «Forgotten World», «Cooking Oil», «Appointment with gOD» and «Un-entitled», she also writes radio plays. She was honoured in the BBC Playwriting Competition for the radio play «Will Smith Look Alike».
She is the Artistic Director and Producer of the Tebere Arts Foundation and Artistic Director of the Kampala International Theatre Festival. She gained international theatre experience through her work at the Sundance Institute Theatre Program. She was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, held a guest lectureship at Pomona College in California and was a guest artist at New York University in Abu Dhabi.
Asiimwe Deborah Kawe was recently honoured at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre for her theatre work on the African continent and beyond.
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