Sachli Gholamalizad - Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season (new work)

Theatre-maker and actress Sachli Gholamalizad was born in Iran and raised in Belgium. In her solo Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season, she sings the praises of two prominent Iranian women artists: Googoosh and Forough Farrokhzad. Through pop music and poetry, their words gave shape to the lives of generations of men and women, among them Gholamalizad’s mother and grandmother. Thanks to the depiction of forbidden worlds, both women learned to appropriate their body once again. Gholamalizad weaves this heritage with contemporary feminist voices into a layered musical performance. She explores what it means to live as a woman today. Supported by strong women from different traditions, she formulates future definitions of womanhood, feminism and love.

Credits
Text & performance: Sachli Gholamalizad
Direction, text, performance: Sachli Gholamalizad
Dramaturgy: Tunde Adefioye, Maryam Kamal Hedayat, Selm Wenselaers
Music: Jan De Vroede, Charo Calvo
Scenography: David Konix
Costume design: Zuhra Hilal
Light design: Dimi Stuyven
Sound: Max Stuurman, Patrick Van Neck
Production: Miek Scheers
Stage manager: Lieven Symaeys
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KVS
Production: KVS
Coproduction: Perpodium, Theater Rotterdam, Vooruit
With the support of: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government