NIUSIA
Thu
2
Thu 2 Apr 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The Loading Dock Theatre
Wheelchair
Accessible Toilet
General Admission
How do you honour the legacy of a woman you hardly knew? …and didn’t really like?
Niusia was a Holocaust survivor. But 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).
Fresh from a sold-out, multi-award-winning international premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, NIUSIA is the unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving debut from Beth Paterson, weaving together memories, handed-down stories, and interviews to examine the precarity of identity and the haphazard cultural legacy second, third and fourth generation immigrants are handed.
A prestigious Scotsman Fringe First recipient, it asks: what does remembrance look like when all you remember is the space where questions should go?
Niusia was a Holocaust survivor. But 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).
Fresh from a sold-out, multi-award-winning international premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, NIUSIA is the unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving debut from Beth Paterson, weaving together memories, handed-down stories, and interviews to examine the precarity of identity and the haphazard cultural legacy second, third and fourth generation immigrants are handed.
A prestigious Scotsman Fringe First recipient, it asks: what does remembrance look like when all you remember is the space where questions should go?