[TamilNet, Friday, 17 February 2012, 23:31 GMT]Combining theatre and reportage, artist Annet Henneman from The Netherlands has been conveying the real stories of oppressed peope and the refugees across Europe in a novel form of theatre performance, causing attitudinal change on viewers for years, through Italy-based Teatro di Nascosto (Hidden Theatre). Eezham Tamils in Berlin, Germany, were introduced to her media last Friday, when she performed there narrating true stories from Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine, Iran and South America with songs and photos in a programme titled “Don't forget us”.
“I think art can have a very big role if it is played in a way that it will touch the people. If you show one mother suffering for what happens to her kid, every mother in the world can feel this. If she feels it, because it is played well, after you can see, it is not one Tamil mother, it is not one Kurdish mother, it is not one refugee, there are 20 million of refugees in the world! So then this 20 million is not only a number but has a kind of feeling,” says Ms. Henneman, who is originally from the Netherlands and is the director of Teatro di Nascosto.
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