My Land is a Suitcase

With:

Original and live music

Aude Lorrillard
Vita Malahova
Sebastien Olivier
Nirina Ralaivola

Electronic music

Nirina Ralaivola & Aude Lorrillard

Graphic design

Alberto Barberis

Lights

Stefano Giorgi

Costumes

Christoph Siegenthaler

Deborah Erin Parini & Aude Lorrillard

My Land is a Suitcase (a title borrowed from Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish) is a traveling musical theater piece about the emigration of a young woman who leaves her village—her homeland—to reach the city. During a performative odyssey, colored by traditional song, the characters in this rural epic speak of their ancestors' traditions and question modernity, which can transform, forget, or reinvent them.
When the time comes to leave our homeland, which we have loved out of habit and hated out of boredom, what will we pack our suitcase with? What do we keep with ourselves? Despite ourselves? Do we recover our traditions elsewhere? Do we long to recover them? Must we really leave? My Land is a Suitcase invites the audience to witness a departure, and as it follows the young woman's doubts and journey, it raises the theme of transmission—and its transformations—through the generations.