VIDEO PROJECTION DESIGN FOR THEATER
Are we finding common ground? What does it take for us to come together, to come together as a family? The here and the there have shaped us, yet differently. Words fail. Where does the detachment from what has shaped us begin? Where do we meet each other? Honestly and genuinely? A constant longing accompanies us. But whether we are brave enough to follow it remains to be seen.
In Your Baggage Unattended, a divided family finds itself in a transitory space between past and possibility, between alienation and arrival, between home and home. Here, where familiar structures begin to falter, each member encounters themselves, their own wounds, suppressed longings, and unspoken, intergenerational expectations. Mother and sister, daughter and brother, father and son-in-law—the bonds are diverse and fractured. And so the stopover becomes a mirror space into which questions of responsibility and care intrude.
Your Baggage Unattended is the result of a large-scale theater workshop: Extended Cooperation. Around forty theater professionals came together at Ballhaus Naunynstraße to learn from one another, receive inspiration from contributors, and create theater from the wealth of encounters. Extended Cooperation was made possible with the prize money of the Federal Theater Prize , which was awarded to Ballhaus Naunynstraße in 2023 as a “singular framework” for new theater practices. Two playwrights and two workshop productions emerged from this. Your Baggage Unattended is a debut in several respects: It is the first play by the authors Elona Beqiraj and Jenaba Samura, the result of their first collaboration; and after several dramaturgies at the house, it is Thu Hoài Tran’s directorial debut at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.
Credits:
Text: Elona Beqiraj , Jenaba Samura
Director: Thu Hoài Tran
Director: Leidy Ramirez-Peña
Dramaturgy: Zoé Miray-Su Hamdemir, Daniel Morais dos Santos Bruss
Sound design: Özgür Akgül
Set design: Omar Sherif
Costume: Rafael Hinz
Lighting design: Thaís Nepomuceno
Mask: Leila Brunner
Video: Antonia Angel
Starring: Elikem Anyigba , Neslihan Arol , Selin Kavak , Atilla Oener , Patrick Pinheiro and Vanessa Yeboah Production management: Leonard Beck
