NINO HARATISCHWILI Supra-ein Fest

In the organizer's words:

Supra is the traditional Georgian table and plays a central role in Georgian social life: Georgian food, local wine and polyphonic Georgian singing are the ingredients for this celebration of community. Author and director Nino Haratischwili invites us to trace and relive this tradition from a female perspective. Together with four musicians from Georgia and three actresses from Hamburg, everyone sits together, eats, drinks and sings, and stories are told about women in Georgia, the conditions there and the desire for a different order of things.

The Supra is largely part of a male patriarchal tradition, although the women, their beauty and their cooking skills are always sung about at the table. The traditional course of events follows a fixed dramaturgy. Toasts to the hosts, the homeland, love, life, the deceased and descendants, as well as to women, are an integral part of the supra ritual. In between, improvisation is allowed.

Nino Haratischwili's Supra is a celebration that negotiates new and old attitudes in order to laugh, cry and enjoy fellowship together.