Where We Belong - ePublication
THE STORY: The power of language is celebrated in Madeline Sayet’s one-person play about heritage, passion, and cultures colliding. Growing up in a Mohegan family, Madeline felt the pressure to learn and pass along all she could of her culture. When she ends up falling for Shakespeare and moving to the UK to study his works, her family’s expectations and colonialism’s unrooting of native peoples’ rituals weigh heavily on her. Where We Belong dramatizes the push and pull of honoring where you came from and inhabiting a world that requires permission to be a part of it.
“…relay[ed]… with wit, warmth and mournful reflection…and Sayet taps into larger truths about American and British society’s collective failure to reckon with colonialism.” —Washington Pos.
“Sayet sets out with questions—about her own direction, her purpose—that seem to multiply. There’s courage in confessing such insecurity.”
—The New York Times.
“…as intellectually daring as it is emotionally resonant…searing…creates an emotional acuity quite rare on the contemporary stage and…hums with an argumentative clarity.” —MD Theatre Guide.
