Synopsis

An original work about teenage dreams, it reveals the beauty, tenderness and anxieties of adolescence. The show unfolds in a playground in the center of a typical western world city. There adults and teenagers from different communities meet with a super hero. From this surreal encounter the outline of a dark paradise is created, in which teenagers are free to chart a new era a century on from the birth of fascism that bloodied the world. The focus of the work is 150 recorded narratives of unaccompanied refugee children. The hopes and dreams of these little modern Ulysses who crossed warlike and inhospitable territories are linked to Henry Ibsen's classic play Little Eyolf. With the methodology of community theater, Rafika Sawis captures in Europeana the concerns of the new generation while also demonstrating the anchorages of an adult world trapped in outdated conventions.