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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Edinburgh international festival to feature tales of refugees and migration
The Guardian: An adaptation of The Jungle Book that reimagines the journey of Mowgli through the eyes of a climate refugee is part of the programme at this year’s Edinburgh international festival, which shines a spotlight on themes of refugeehood and migration.
1 comment:
Monica Tran
said...
So Edinburgh's Fringe Festival is allegedly the biggest theatre festival in the world, and the fact that they're putting a special feature on refugees and immigrants during a stressful political climate right now is ridiculously admirable. It's not just for the refugees and immigrants of now, but it's for the Syrian refugees from not so long ago and it's for everyone who doesn't feel like they're part of "it." All of the themes they portray in a show are actual attitudes and emotions that real people feel and I don't think people really understand that's their truth that people live. People don't really understand the refugee mindset or like the coping mechanisms so many refugees had to adapt just to deal with the fact that they were displaced from their home. Okay, maybe this hit a little too close to home because my parents were like legitimately boat people from Vietnam but, I wasn't there and their generational trauma was passed down to me, so take my word when I say, thank you to Edinburgh Fringe, you were beautiful and the Royal Mile was awesome.
1 comment:
So Edinburgh's Fringe Festival is allegedly the biggest theatre festival in the world, and the fact that they're putting a special feature on refugees and immigrants during a stressful political climate right now is ridiculously admirable. It's not just for the refugees and immigrants of now, but it's for the Syrian refugees from not so long ago and it's for everyone who doesn't feel like they're part of "it." All of the themes they portray in a show are actual attitudes and emotions that real people feel and I don't think people really understand that's their truth that people live. People don't really understand the refugee mindset or like the coping mechanisms so many refugees had to adapt just to deal with the fact that they were displaced from their home. Okay, maybe this hit a little too close to home because my parents were like legitimately boat people from Vietnam but, I wasn't there and their generational trauma was passed down to me, so take my word when I say, thank you to Edinburgh Fringe, you were beautiful and the Royal Mile was awesome.
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