Akroāma

Program

Akroāma explores the issues of social justice and inequality. The play explores how social environments shape our deepest identity, examining how we find our place when no chair is offered to us. This is all conveyed through a set design that becomes a poetic and abstract mise en abyme of the invisible barriers between social classes.

Performed by virtuoso actors and featuring an original soundtrack created by an electronic composer and an oud player, the play offers a sensitive and committed response that is far removed from the intellectualisation that sometimes dominates contemporary creation. It champions an emotional and accessible art form rooted in lived experience and feelings. 

Designed to be performed in non-dedicated venues, Akroāma seeks to forge social connections and encourage dialogue between different communities.

Akroāma: from the Latin

1. 'pleasure for the ears', for a reading or a concert. 
2. Performer, musician, actor.

Concept, choreography, set design, project leader: Brian Ca

Composition, music: Ivan Pavlov – COH

Set design, technical: Nina Schaeffer

Costumes, design, staging: Rachel Quarmby

Performers: Catarina Barbosa, Noe Nies, George Maikel Pires Monteiro, Giuseppe Sanniu

Production:. Manon Peugnet, Éva Harnois

Co-producers: .Trifolion Echternach, ArcA Bertrange, Trois C-L l Maison pour la Danse, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Support: Ministère de la Culture du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Commune d’Esch-sur-Alzette