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FÆNGSELSDIGTESoloforestilling af og med Karen-Lise Mynster. En smuk og stærk fortælling om overlevelse og et stille, fascinerende, kunstnerisk oprør. Baseret på iranske Mahvash Sabets digtsamling Fængselsdigte.
Jeg var engang et værdiløst frø, den lille kerne af en drøm
som forsynet selv havde plantet nær din kærligheds strøm.
Sådan indleder Mahvash Sabet sin digtsamling Fængselsdigte.
Det kunne lyde som begyndelsen på et kærlighedsdigt, men lytter man nøje efter, rummer disse persiske digte en længsel efter noget uopnåeligt – en drøm om frihed. Digtene er skrevet i et fængsel.
I 2008 blev Sabet, som medlem af det forbudte Bahá’í-trossamfund i Iran, anklaget og dømt for at have stiftet ”en illegal organisation med det formål at undergrave statens sikkerhed”.. Hun fik tyve års fængsel, men blev løsladt i september 2017 efter ti år. I de ti år skrev hun digte om forholdene i kvindefængslet, om torturen, men også om medmenneskelighed og frihed.
Digtene blev smuglet ud af fængslet og blev i 2013 offentliggjort, mens Sabet stadig sad fængslet. I 2020 udkom de på dansk.
At digte blev en overlevelsesstrategi for Sabet. Helvedet i fængslet gjorde hende til digter – en stemme, der formåede at trænge igennem mure. Hun skrev
fra et fængsel i Iran, men digtene peger skræmmende klart på noget universelt – det isolerede menneske, mennesket underlagt det totalitære. De taler for
alle uretfærdigt fængslede i verden.
ENGLISH VERSION
PRISON POEMS
Solo performance by and with Karen-Lise Mynster. A beautiful and powerful tale of survival and a solemn and captivating artistic revolt. Based on Iranian Mahvash Sabet’s collection of poetry, entitled Prison Poems.
“I was once a worthless seed, the little core of a dream which the Provider himself had planted near the stream of your love.”
Thus, Mahvash Sabet begins her collection of poetry, Prison Poems. It may sound like the opening of a love poem, but if you listen carefully, these Persian poems express a yearning for something unattainable – a dream of freedom. The poems were penned in prison.
In 2008, as a member of the banned Bahá'í Faith Community in Iran, Sabet was accused and convicted of founding “an illegal organisation with the aim of undermining the security of the state”. She was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but was released in September 2017 after ten years of incarceration. During these ten years, she wrote poems about the conditions in the women’s prison, about torture, but also about humanity and freedom.
The poems were smuggled out of prison and were published in 2013, while Sabet was still imprisoned. In 2020, the poems were published in Danish translation.
Poetry became a survival strategy for Sabet. The hell in prison made her a poet – a voice that managed to penetrate walls. She wrote from a prison in Iran, but the poems point to something evocatively universal – to the isolated human being, to a human being subjected to totalitarianism. The poems speak for all the unjustly imprisoned throughout the world.
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Skuespilhuset, Sankt Annæ Plads 36, Copenhagen, Denmark, Herlev
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