ICIRORI

There she grew up in a small, middle-class town with a white family. Almost 30 years later, actress and director Consolate returned to Burundi. There she met members of her family with whom she could have stayed. She has now completed several years of intensive research, during which she dealt with topics such as human trafficking and illegal adoption and dealt with her own experiences of racism and identity destruction.

The play »ICIRORI« is the result of this painful and at the same time liberating confrontation. Consolate tries to use many means to reconstruct her fragmented identity and biography in order to reclaim both of them in a self-determined way: bodies, videos, smells, images, stage design, letters, soundtracks are all equally important elements of this production.


»ICIRORI« means something like »looking in your own inner mirror, facing your story in order to move forward« in Kirundi, one of the official languages of Burundi. Consolate takes this slogan literally and has developed an evening that reflects her journey from Burundi to Belgium and back again - and tells her story, which is both collective and intimate.


CONSOLATE completed her acting studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons. From 2016 to 2021 she played at the Schaubühne in Milo Rau's production »Mitleid. Die Geschichte eines Maschinengewehrs«, in which she already addressed her life story. She is the speaker of the podcast "Noire, femme et communiste: Angela Davis".


75 minutes

(In French with German and English subtitles)