Winter 2009, Teater CampX, Copenhagen
The past 5 weeks i’ve been working on a theatre play on theatre CampX called Hush Little Baby as video/image designer. And last week we had opening night after a pretty tuff period. The play is about Filipino au-pairs that travel abroad to earn money, leaving family and children behind in the Philippines. And here in the west they live without any legal protection from their homeland, and earn money under a system that was intended for something completely different. In the play we got some philipin women telling us these stories, together with 3 danish actors that tell the danish story about getting a girl into the house.
So the next 4 weeks i’m going to control sound and video every night at CampX together with these wonderfull people.
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I was fortunate enough to be in the audience last night when you all performed. I have been an avid theatre goer in the past 10-12 years of my life and never have I experienced a play that touched me more or deeper. And I use the word experienced. Not watched. I felt involved – I felt my personal sphere invaded… like you all got under my skin and I couldn’t not be aware. It was an incredible feeling. Too, I felt invited into the lives of people I didn’t know existed. Hadn’t taken time to realise existed. And that is always precious.
The concept and expression of the play is brilliant, funny, unexpected and real in a sense most plays just never come close to achieving. And when it was all over, I didn’t wish to leave. I wanted to stay and listen to the singing … to listen to the smiles, the hopes, the dreams and the life they all exuded… for just a little while longer.
I cannot thank you all enough for creating this amazing experience for me and so many others to share in. Leaving a theatre with the wish to stay and get to know everyone… really know them… to see beyond the characters, the masks and the lines… is so precious. Thank you, everyone.
Sounds like a compelling story – good luck on the sound.