"What does it mean to forget? When the shape of your mother tongue feels foreign in your mouth but your thoughts still flit between languages, where do you find connection? Where do you find understanding?
Speaking English has transformed me into something of a puppet myself. Someone less real, less concrete. Always at arm’s length. I’ve taken a step back from the person I am in Turkish or Portuguese. Who am I when I’m just English?"
TONGUESTONGUESTONGUES is about the grief surrounding forgetting languages, and our connections to family and culture with it, looking at what it means to cross language barriers and what it means to fail through delving back into and reconnecting with childhood.
Event Details
Genre: Theatre
Duration: 45 mins
Price: £12
Suitable for ages: 12 and over
World premiere