Y/OUR POVERTY
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 København V
28.05.2021 - 29.05.2021
Friday May 28th 18h25 and Saturday 29th May 13h55
Language Danish
Duration 45 min.

Text NADIA JOSEFINE EL SAID Dramaturgy SOSHA TEPEROWSKA Directing HENRIK GRIMBÄCK Staring WAHID SUI, LISE LAUENBLAD, SARAH JUEL WERNER Photo SIGRUN GUDBRANDSDOTTIR 

Y/OUR POVERTY

Reading of Y/OUR POVERTY by Nadia El Said

”Let’s plant a money three, my old man. Let´s lay a seed in the ground, watch it grow, become strong. And then pick the fresh money leaves. Bronze and amber shining, golden leaves”

Y/OUR POVERTY is a story about a father on social benefits. It is a story about poverty and about living og surviving in Denmark’s world-famous welfare system. A man’s live added up by others – mostly his daughter, observing from the side unable to meddle in. Fragments from meetings with the municipality, nightly conversations with birds, shopping trips to discount chains, money being counted, examinations at the doctors and dreams of a magic potion. A lyrically independent speech from the meatless human bones of the system.

The play is an adaption of Nadia Josefine El Said’s novel by the same name from 2020. El Said (b. 1977) is educated from The National Film School of Denmark. She works in a field between text, animation and graphics and has for instance exhibited text pieces and published two books with the publisher Gladiator.

Part of S/H Readings during CPH Stage:.
Y/OUR POVERTY is a part of S/H Reading taking place at Sort/Hvid during the theatre festival CPH Stage. Here you can experience readings of theatre plays that are all under development. Plays that in each their way investigates the politically polished welfare system.

Presented in cooporation with the organisation Danske Dramatikere (Danish Playwrights).

Y/OUR POVERTY

28.05.2021 - 29.05.2021
Friday May 28th 18h25 and Saturday 29th May 13h55
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 København V
Language Danish
Duration 45 min.

Reading of Y/OUR POVERTY by Nadia El Said

”Let’s plant a money three, my old man. Let´s lay a seed in the ground, watch it grow, become strong. And then pick the fresh money leaves. Bronze and amber shining, golden leaves”

Y/OUR POVERTY is a story about a father on social benefits. It is a story about poverty and about living og surviving in Denmark’s world-famous welfare system. A man’s live added up by others – mostly his daughter, observing from the side unable to meddle in. Fragments from meetings with the municipality, nightly conversations with birds, shopping trips to discount chains, money being counted, examinations at the doctors and dreams of a magic potion. A lyrically independent speech from the meatless human bones of the system.

The play is an adaption of Nadia Josefine El Said’s novel by the same name from 2020. El Said (b. 1977) is educated from The National Film School of Denmark. She works in a field between text, animation and graphics and has for instance exhibited text pieces and published two books with the publisher Gladiator.

Part of S/H Readings during CPH Stage:.
Y/OUR POVERTY is a part of S/H Reading taking place at Sort/Hvid during the theatre festival CPH Stage. Here you can experience readings of theatre plays that are all under development. Plays that in each their way investigates the politically polished welfare system.

Presented in cooporation with the organisation Danske Dramatikere (Danish Playwrights).

Text NADIA JOSEFINE EL SAID Dramaturgy SOSHA TEPEROWSKA Directing HENRIK GRIMBÄCK Staring WAHID SUI, LISE LAUENBLAD, SARAH JUEL WERNER Photo SIGRUN GUDBRANDSDOTTIR