With their new work, Armine, Sister, Teatr ZAR, the resident company of Poland’s famous Grotowski Institute, evokes what happened in 1915 when the Turks killed more than a million Armenians in Anatolia — a genocide that Turkey still denies, San Francisco newspaper SF Weekly reports.
Through singing, movement, and metaphors, Armine, Sister reflects on the world’s silence on the near extermination. The performance - Armine, Sister - has been wildly successful in Europe, has been included in the San Francisco International Art Festival (SFIAF) for its U.S. premiere.
“We all are witnessing something that does not belong to our experience, but to humankind. We try to reduce our ignorance,” said Jaroslaw Fret, the artistic director of Teatr ZAR.
