PAPERS

Theater street protest performance, with a 50 women drum line, actors on loud speakers and video projections onto various city buildings in NYC

PIER 45 HUDSON RIVER PARK. 10/18/25@7.30Pm

WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK 10/20/25 @5pm

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK. 10/25/25@7.30pm

Marion Schoevaert (Director), Danny Bryck (Director); Young Cheong (Projection Director); Irina Patkanian (Filmmaker), Gus Ford (Cameraman, DP); Hussein Smko (Choreography); Music Director (Stacy Kovacs) Drum Line (Fogo Azul), Actors. Written by Violaine Schwartz. Translated by Christine Gutman (Fern publish)

Street theater protest / performance, with a drum line, dancers, actors on loudspeakers, and video projections onto New York City buildings. Based on “Papers,” written by Violaine Schwartz. 

PAPERS will be a “total performance” in which the public is both audience and participant / protestor. Through a visceral encounter with the true stories of asylum seekers and their sometimes unimaginable struggles to obtain identification, we will all look at our own identities and relationships to “the other.” The faces of refugees, projected onto the buildings of our city, will be interspersed with live images of ourselves, watching, reminders of our responsibility to the society we wish to inhabit. Illuminated by this light in the darkness, a dance and live music will emerge, inviting us into a theater and politics of hope, celebration, and unity.

Supported by NYSCA and FACE Contemporary Theater, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States; Washington Square Park Conservancy and PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.