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Fronteiras Theatre Lab in association with CECTON presents Placeholder.

St Domingue, 1790. One year and one day before an uprising of rebel slaves will ignite what is now known as the Haitian Revolution. In Le Comédie de Port-Au-Prince, Minette waits, holding a seat for her mistress, but the auditorium fumes conjure up ghosts from her past.

Set in motion by academic research carried out by members of the Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre and Opera Network, a cross-institutional endeavour chaired at St Andrews, Bisset delivers an engaging new work. Hoping to turn silence into speculation into reclamation and attestation, Placeholder takes as its starting point the idea that the gaps in the archives, the lacunae in texts, and the holes in the narrative are themselves acts of violence and suppression.

Written and performed by Catherine Bisset

Dramaturgy by Jaïrus Obayomi

Directed by Flavia D'Avila

Part of the Being Human Festival. The performance will be followed by a live Q&A.


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