The lonely star
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"The lone star." That's what Liberians call the one big star that adorns their proud flag. After 34 years, charismatic actor Bright Richards paid his first visit back to his native Liberia, which he was forced to flee when a bloody civil war raged. Hotel Modern uses ingenious models, puppets and live animation to depict this impressive and confusing return. A journey in which past and present intermingle, in which gruesome memories of war and the new everyday reality alternate at an alienating rate.
Confrontational and compassionate, Bright recounts the history of his country, which came into being in the wake of the slavery past. He tries to come to terms with the raw violence in which child soldiers were used, and seeks hope in the powerful way the women of Liberia provided disarmament and peace.
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"The lone star." That's what Liberians call the one big star that adorns their proud flag. After 34 years, charismatic actor Bright Richards paid his first visit back to his native Liberia, which he was forced to flee when a bloody civil war raged. Hotel Modern uses ingenious models, puppets and live animation to depict this impressive and confusing return. A journey in which past and present intermingle, in which gruesome memories of war and the new everyday reality alternate at an alienating rate.
Confrontational and compassionate, Bright recounts the history of his country, which came into being in the wake of the slavery past. He tries to come to terms with the raw violence in which child soldiers were used, and seeks hope in the powerful way the women of Liberia provided disarmament and peace.
A performance like a road movie in which the creators ask themselves how you can look your demons from the past in the eye, whether you can process a war together, how perpetrators and victims can go on living together.
When
- Saturday, February 13, 2027 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Buy tickets