BAB, SIU ARCHIV ED JEU

- by asa hendry

Festival Travers I Premiere September 2025 / World Premiere

The piece "Bab, siu archiv ed jeu" tells the story of a fragmented language left behind by a farmer to his son. It's a story closely intertwined with the landscape and silence. Three performers of different ages give it a voice. Representing the son, they become an archive of the father's untold stories. (How) can a vicious cycle spanning generations be broken?

The production traces the extent of transgenerational trauma in agriculture and searches for the remnants of the violence that once befell many shepherd children in the Grisons Alps. Over the course of the evening, traces of a decaying language become visible and audible, one that speaks of loneliness and longs for connection.

The play is performed in various Romansh idioms and German.

Report in the Engadiner Post