BERLIN (BELGIUM)
PRESENTED AS SUITABLE FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING
Chernobyl, 26th April 1986.
Due to the explosion of a reactor, the lives of the people living in and around Pripyat took a drastic turn. The people of some 90 towns and villages around the reactor were to be evacuated from their homes to never return again.
Pétro and Nadia, a couple born and raised in Zvizdal, refused evacuation. They stayed put in their old village, in their own house. A ghost town. A portrait of solitude, survival, poverty, hope and of love, between two elderly people over 80 years old with all around them the colourless, scentless but omnipresent radiation.
Post-show discussion with Dr. Vanessa May of University of Manchester followed the performance on Thursday 23rd March exploring issues of ageing, home and belonging.
