A Place At The Table

A Place At The Table: Daedalus Theatre Company

A Place at the Table is a company-devised performance, first shown in a pilot version at Camden People's Theatre, that explores the conflicting narratives which have shaped Burundian history, and that of the wider ‘African Great Lakes’ region.

Using documentary and verbatim material generated through workshops with campaigners and refugees as a starting point, it centres on the 1993 coup in which President Ndadaye was assassinated (one of the triggers for the Rwandan genocide) but also goes back through colonial history to the ancient myths that shape national identity.

Though rooted in fact and developed in collaboration with two campaigning journalists, the play offers the audience a highly theatrical experience that attempts to explore the subtle, dangerous relationships between history, myth, identity and violence.