The Children of Amazi - Theatre for children from 6 years

You will look for water here in vain. Where the Great Lakes once were, there is now only drought. It spread over night, so they say. Lakes and rivers have dried up.

As has the water tank which stands on stage. The Children of Amazi, an adventurous theatre piece for young people, is set in imaginary worlds yet focuses on a real issue: water and its disappearance.

Accompanied with puppets, singing, dance and rhythm, this collective theatre work stages the scarcity of this vital resource. Performers from Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo draw upon their diverse artistic languages to tell a story about water and raise the question: Can the end of this story still be rewritten?

The Children of Amazi is the result of the initiative SMALL CITIZENS, a coproduction of Ishyo Arts Centre in Kigali, Rwanda and Théâtre du Papyrus in Belgium. The initiative aims to reinvent and implement youthful theatre in East Africa on an intercultural level. 

The Children of Amazi focuses on joint management of crises and the continuing environmental emergency in the African Great Lakes region. This humorous and captivating show is a gentle ode to the power of solidarity.

Bernard Chemin, Carole Karemera, Denis Mpunga (Rwanda / DR Congo / Burundi / Kenya / Belgium):

Participants

By and with: Kento Juma, Abdul Mujyambere, Claudia Shimwa, Eliane Umuhire, Rivardo Niyonizi giye

Idea: Rivardo Niyo nizigiye

Artistic direction: Bernard Chemin, Carole Karemera, Denis Mpunga

Technical direction: Fred Postiau

Artistic collaboration: Didier de Neck

Musical direction: Hervé Twahirwa

Production management: Valérie Kohl

Photos: Kira Kynd

Production: Théâtre du Papyrus (Belgien), Ishyo Arts Centre (Ruanda)

Coproduction: FULL-FUN (Belgium), théâtre Les Bambous – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national (Saint-Benoît), Pierre de Lune – Centre Scénique Jeunes Publics de Bruxelles (Belgium)

In collaboration with: Buja Sans Tabou (Burundi)

Financial Support: La Commission internationale du théâtre francophone (CITF), Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI), Pierre de Lune – Centre Scénique Jeunes Publics de Bruxelles (Belgium), Institut français – Visas for Creation, La Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FW-B), French Community Commission (COCOF)

- 8 EUR, reduced 4 EUR

- Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

- Introduction to the play in German, then non-essential English, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda

- Duration: 50 min

- 6 years and older

- Ground Floor, Hall 3

- Belongs to: Transkontinentale

Price: €8.00

Reduced price: €4.00

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