PERFORMANCE BY JEANNETTE EHLERS

at Theatre FÅR302

Into the Dark takes as its starting point a scene from H.C. Andersen’s play The Mulatto (1840) in which one protagonist, Paléme, attempts to convince his acquaintance Horatio to participate in an imminent revolt against the plantocracy of colonial Martinique. Tensions rise as the two men negotiate their privileges within the colonial system and stakes in overturning it.

Through a poetic, fragmented series of scenes and soundscapes, Into the Dark unfolds an expansive legacy of Black anti-colonial resistance. Here we encounter, along with H.C. Andersen’s characters, labor revolt leader Queen Mary, Afrofuturist pioneer Sun Ra, renowned writer James Baldwin, founders of the Black Lives Matter movement among many others

With: Jeannette Ehlers, Camara Joof, Marie-Lydie Nokouda, Elisha Ngoma, Kevin K. Yuven, Marie Eugénie Niyonzima, Fabiola Uwimana, Jonathan Lutaaya, Borys Mugisha, Longing Umutoni, Amri de Maximo Nshimiyimana, Thierry de Maximo Muvandimwe, Salomon Nagui Salui, Raymond Igiraneza, Mohsen Nasiri, Iraj Mohamadi, Shakira Kasigwa Mukamusoni, Seif Nasa, Sun Ra, James Baldwin, Paul Gilroy, Akala & Jane Elliot

Concept, direction and scenography: Jeannette Ehlers

Dramaturgy: Nina Cramer & Lotte Løvholm

Production: Lotte Løvholm

Choreography: Justin F Kennedy

Lighting designer and operator: Martin Danielsen

Soundscapes: Lamin Fofana

Costumes: Dady De Maximo & Lise Klitten

Architect: Martin Spangs

Text: H. C. Andersen, Justin F. Kennedy & Tiphanie Yanique

translatioe "The Mulatto": Nina Sokol

Queen Mary kostume:

Assistant technician: Camilla Leth Jensen