ONE WOMAN THEATRE TO PREMIERE AT GOETHE-INSTITUT (Accra)

It’s in the Blood?! is a solo show developed for and with Gifty Wiafe, a young woman from Ghana now living and studying in Germany. The play is the result of an 18 month-long collaboration between Tete Adehyemma Dance Theatre, Ghana, and Cactus Junges Theater in Münster/Germany.

Gifty Wiafe fills the stage with her unique and mesmerising blend of humour, dance, music and storytelling. A modern intermediary between cultures and continents, Gifty takes us on a roller-coaster of a journey. She touches on many issues of universal relevance and interest, connecting the dots from deeply personal life events to questions of migration, cultural and national identity (including lazy stereotypes), individual and corporate greed, environmental challenges, male and female viewpoints and much, much more.

The audience is invited to “walk a mile in another person’s shoes” and experience the transformative power of the arts when it comes to imagining and creating a world where other-ness and diversity are no longer feared but celebrated.

The German-language version of It’s in the Blood?! has been hugely successful with critics and audiences alike, with further performances planned from October.