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| Alina Serban Photo by: Romedia Foundation |
27th of
March is a day to reflect on the importance of theatre. But is also the day
when the woman who gave birth to me was born.
My mom,
Niculina, is a Roma woman who works as a cleaner in Bucharest, Romania. She is
a short, strong woman who struggled all her life. She is one of those thousand
and thousand women of that theatre should speak about
Today we
must remember the importance of so many untold stories that need , please allow
me to repeat, that need -to be told.
I wish my
words could grow hands now so I could touch you, embrace you my fellow
actors-all theatre makers, and tell you that we are needed and that what you
are doing is important.
When this
so called' power' / authority is delaying in making justice, when it's giving
fuel to hate, to violence against other fellow humans is up to us to speak up,
to say' we are NOT part of this'
I only
have a half of page and there are so many things I'd like to say, if I'll have
just one phrase to say I'll choose to say ' please do not delay in uncovering,
in cornering, pointing out the hate around you'.
It's not
possible, that in 2014, after our universal history to still have people
leaving in fear because of their ethnicity, color, sexual orientation.
In this
short time we have to pass this earth, please ask yourselves as I ask myself
too: what kind of artist do you want to be? In what type of society you want to
live in ?
As an artist, as a Romanian Roma, a woman, an immigrant- I aim to
create and be part of a theatre that cares that challenges the privileged
perspective and discrimination.
She asked me' my dear, I know your smart why don't you get a
normal job and you run up and down to pay rent?'
Many times I asked that myself too, but I just keep on doing it
with the hope that what I do today will help the Roma kids, and non Roma to be
treated better .
Long live theatre and moms!