"See You Yesterday": US Premiere Performance by Phare Ponleu Selpak

[CEOCambodiaNews]

17 May 2019
Cambodia News: Cambodia circus theatre, Phare Ponleu Selpak, are performing in Boston USA at the moment. They can be seen on the Robert J. Orchard Stage at the Emerson Paramount Center in Boston, from May 16-19, 2019, at 7:30pm.


In Cambodia, as in other countries emerging from violent conflict, personal experiences of violence, privation, and loss often remain unspoken. “See You Yesterday” is a production developed by Global Arts Corps and young Cambodian artists using world-class circus arts and physical theatre to break this legacy of silence.

In 2012, the Cambodian non-profit Phare Ponleu Selpak (“The Brightness of the Arts”) and their professional performing arts company (PPSE) invited Global Arts Corps to work with their students after witnessing GAC’s first touring theatre production from South Africa, “Truth in Translation.” They asked that GAC begin a related project in Cambodia—strengthening their performers’ acting skills while asking them to delve deeply into their identities to understand a genocide they knew little about, but which overshadowed their daily lives.

Since that initial meeting, Global Arts Corps’ international team of actor/trainers has spent 20 weeks working with this cast of circus performers, themselves second-generation survivors of the genocide, to develop “See You Yesterday”—a theatrical production that explores the memories these young artists have inherited from their parents’ and grandparents’ lives under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

Following their performance in Boston, Phare’s artists will fly to Singapore where they will perform excerpts from their work “Eclipse” at the Flipside Festival May 24 through 26.

Then, in August, they will stage the whole “Eclipse” work at the Darwin Festival in Australia.
Source: http://globalartscorps.org/home/seeyouyesterday/