Living Smile VidyaIN / CH

Introducing Living Smile Vidya

Performance / theater

Living Smile Vidya is a transgender actress, author and activist from India, who sought asylum in Switzerland in 2018. Her poignant yet comical one-woman-show bears her name and features her own story: that of a trans Dalit woman, an artist in exile, and a fighter for the right to exist freely and with dignity. In India, she expected no national recognition or miracles. She simply wanted to live without being crushed. In Switzerland, she sought to free herself from another kind of invisibility: life in refugee centres, and the intrusive questions and constant need to justify her existence that come with it. Finding her own apartment became an act of independence – almost a luxury. She dances, sings and projects her story and struggles on stage in this moving yet challenging show, exposing her unique and powerful soul.

* Still sometimes referred to by the insulting term ‘untouchables’, dalits - ‘the oppressed’ in Sanskrit - are destined from birth to a life of discrimination, the UN reminds us.

Maison Saint-Gervais Genève


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Hosted and co-produced by Maison Saint-Gervais, with the support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and the Ernst Göhner Foundation

Length 65'

English, German, Tamil with French Surtitles

+ 16 years old

Living Smile Vidya    Instagram

Cast & credits

Artistic direction, performance
Living Smile Vidya
Mentoring
Marcel Schwald
Artistic Support
Beatrice Fleischlin
Sound, Video design, animation
Moritz Flachsmann
Technical management, Lighting
Thomas Kohler
Costumes
Diana Ammann
Sound
Silvan Koch
Voice (video)
Suzì Feliz Das Neves
Surtitles
Anton Kuzema
Production Management
Das Theaterkolleg
Photos
Ralph Kühne, Ronja Burkard, BAK / Charlotte Krieger

Co-production

Tojo Theater Reitschule-Bern, Treibstoff Theatertage-Basel and Südpol-Luzern

Maison Saint-Gervais Genève


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