PAPERS

STREET PROTEST THEATER PERFORMANCE

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); Oscar Castillo (Photographer);Hussein Smko (Choreography); Rude Mechanical Orchestra, 6 actors. Written by Violaine Schwartz. Translated by Christine Gutman (Fern publish)

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 and immigrants, 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.