Kibuye is based on Clea Koff?s book The Bonewoman or Die Knochenfrau.
At 22 years old, just graduated as forensic anthropologist Koff leaves the US for Kibuye, Rwanda, to help open up a massive mass grave.
With a sort of professional distance and a great moving care and engagement Koff speaks about the difficult work and the histories behind it. A post modern tragic tale with an ancient ring.
Clea koff is our present day messenger. In Kibuye like in the old Greek plays the violence is described but not shown. So via our ear the images will hunt our eyes. In a mediatised world where the amount of images sometimes seem to make us numb. This play is a simple but shocking revelation. Clea Koff is an impressive human being who without any shame can say: I did something important in this world. For us Clea Koff is a very inspire ring person who comes from a perspective of professionalism, dealing with painful truths to a very realistic but moving approach to a new concept of peace.
Kibuye played with much success at several festivals in the Netherlands like ITS festival, theaterfestival Amsterdam and opened at the coup in hometown Maastricht.
Het Geluid is an interdisciplinary theatre collective: based in an old factory in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Members are graduates from Maastrichts Famed drama school and operasingers, journalists, dancers, musicians and thinkers.
Het Geluid thinks beyond and crosses the borders of countries and the different arts. It specializes in non theatre texts, (new) music theatre, working with different content fields and what we call the humanities.
Gable Roelofsen graduated from the drama academy of Maastricht (nl). He was one of the first students to get a degree in theatrical performance in this academy
As a freelance actor he was seen in a wide area of work places. differing from plays, performance, musictheatre, musical, radio, television and films. He worked with people like Ko van den Bosch, Peter Missotten, Gerardjan Rijnders, Gijs de Lange, Niek Kortekaas, Marion Bloem but also with nice young dutch theatre artists like Paul Knieriem, Lotte de Beer en Sanne Vogel
As a director he works around texts originally not written for the theatre and new music theatre or opera. He does this at his own company called HET GELUID. at home in an old industrialbuilding (AINSI)in the city of maastricht in the euregion. on the dutch border between Belgium and Germany.
Gable Roelofsen is an alumni of the Lincoln center directorslab New York city 2006
Presentation Thursday 02nd October during the peace workshop at Technische Universität Berlin. Please check the timetable and workshop time table for further details.
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