Theatre

NIUSIA

How can you honour the legacy of a woman you never knew?

Dates 02 - 08 Oct
Time 7:30pm (60 minutes)
Venue The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box

$28.00

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Wheelchair Accessible

A person with pink hair is seated on the ground of a sun room in a mid-century home. Superimposed onto the image is an old, torn photograph of Beth's grandmother, Niusia, seated in the same room. Beth is looking down the barrel of the camera, whilst Niusia looks pensively into the distance.

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Theatre

Image Credit: Ece Mustafoff

Written and Performed by: Beth Paterson
Directed by: Kathryn Yates
Presented by: a ry presentation

Niusia was a Holocaust survivor. Her granddaughter, Beth, only remembers an angry, dying woman. She’s ready to learn her stories, but what she discovers is all the questions she didn’t know existed, and wasn’t allowed to ask.

Through NIUSIA, Beth weaves memories, handed-down stories, and interviews in an attempt to reconcile her own mixed cultural inheritance and comprehend her Grandmother’s complex legacy. It examines the precarity of identity, and the haphazard cultural legacy second, third, and fourth generation immigrants are handed.

By applying the same intrinsic instinct as her Jewish ancestors, Beth looks back at her family's history to begin to understand her role in its future. Her forebears fled war and devastation to seek belonging and safety, and NIUSIA interrogates what happens when aspiration becomes assimilation and asks what are our roles in keeping these stories alive.

Throughout the work, Beth asks: "What does remembrance look like when all I remember is the space where questions should go?”

About a ry presentation

a ry presentation is an independent company focused on producing new, queer works, and working alongside artists coming from historically disenfranchised background and communities.

Duration: 60 minutes
Age suitability: PG
Event warnings: Contains Sustained Bright Lights, Mild Coarse Language.
Content warnings: Violence, War, References To Antisemitism, Concentration Camps, War Crimes, Violence And Genocide; Depiction Of A PTSD Flashback; Descriptions Of Concentration Camp Experiences, Reference To And Depiction Of A Hate Symbol.

The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box
118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box is wheelchair accessible.

There is step-free access to the venue. Wheelchair users enter at the main entrance. The Black Box and all downstairs spaces, including the bar, are accessible.
There are accessible toilets at this venue.

More accessibility info available via website - www.themotley.com.au/about.html

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Full: $28.00
Concession: $24.00
Group 6+: $24.00
Extra Applause: $32.00
Blak Tix: $10.00
Hump Day Discount: $21.00

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Sessions: In Person Events

A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking.

Date	Time	Venue
Monday, 02 October 2023	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box	Past Event
Tuesday, 03 October 2023 Selling Fast	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box Selling Fast	Past Event
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 Hump Day	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box Hump Day	Past Event
Thursday, 05 October 2023	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box	Past Event
Friday, 06 October 2023	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box	Past Event
Saturday, 07 October 2023 Sold Out	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box Sold Out	Past Event
Sunday, 08 October 2023 Sold Out	7:30pm	The Motley Bauhaus - Black Box Sold Out	Past Event