Soulographie: Our Genocides, 17-Play Cycle
Executive Producer
Hate wants us to look away, but in Erik Ehn's Soulographie, he urgest us not to accuse, but to educate. Soulographie is a durational performance event featuring 17 plays on human rights and genocide, engaging in conversations that look at 20th century America from the point-of-view of its relationship to genocides in the U.S. (Tulsa Race Riot), East Africa (Rwanda, Uganda) and Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador). The series was produced over the course of two years at theatres across the U.S., Uganda, and Poland before coming to New York City for a two week marathon at La Mama in November 2012. These experimental works, which ranged from short to full-length plays, examining traumas, healing and reconciliation.
"It is clear that Mr. Ehn has something vitally important to say and a many-splendored voice with which to say it. 'Then thousand things turn into 10,000 other things,' he writes. And horror turns into art."
— Anita Gates, The New York Times
