Zoumba - Les Silences Du Miroir

The award-winning Senegalese human rights activist, storyteller, writer, and teacher Pape Samba Sow "Zoumba" presents his stage play Les silences du miroir, a poetic spectacle on the search for heroines and heroes. This tale was created within the course of his Fellowship as artist in residence at the collaborative research centre SFB 948 "Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms" in cooperation with the Africa Centre ACT of the University of Freiburg. Les silences du miroir is a poetic spectacle, a tale with music and dance, an examination of religion, memory culture and colonial heritage, a myth about the search for heroines and heroes: A curse suddenly brings misfortune to the imaginary kingdom of Ndar-on-River-and-Sea, protected by the goddess of water. Driven by superstition, the kingdom’s inhabitants consult their oracle, the mirror of time. Which hero will liberate this innocent people in the end? The historian or the artist, the politician or the warrior, the man or the woman, the believer or the atheist, the illiterate or the educated?