Her(e) Dalilla Hermans en NTGent

Dalilla Hermans en NTGent
Tue 15/02/2022 - 20:00

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Author Dalilla Hermans talks with 31 black women and writes about their lives in Belgium. It’s about challenges and hope, work and theatre, family and sisterhood. A political and intimate night.

Being a black woman in a white world means always being very visible and at the same time almost invisible. Author, columnist and mother Dalilla Hermans has explored her own experience in books and columns over the past years. In her first theatre piece, she captures the special connection that exists between black women.

Together with actress Abigail Abraham, she drew up a guest list of inspiring black women in Flanders and Brussels, and invited them for a 24-hour stay in Villa Hellebosch. 

No less than 31 women, all artists, actresses and activists, came together there and talked about everything. They discussed topics like intense joy or traumas they weren’t even aware of. Dalila wrote all of it down in a text about their lives in Belgium. A text about challenges and hope, work and theatre, family and sisterhood. Abigail Abraham performs Her(e) on scene, not as a monologue, but in dialogue with black women and the white gaze upon them. A political and intimate night.

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concept, text, scenography and direction Dalilla Hermans play and co-creation Abigail Abraham dramaturgy and co-creation Carolina Maciel de França production NTGent photo Harmony Benegusenga