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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    Madeline Sayet solo show is now streaming

    Madeline Sayet’s solo show “Where We Belong,” which was originally done at Shakespeare's Globe theater in London in 2019, is now streaming online from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

    That filmed version is available until July 11.

    In addition, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven is streaming it now through Sunday.

    In the show, Sayet, who is a member of the Mohegan tribe, recalls her move to England to study Shakespeare and earn her PhD. She finds a country that refuses to acknowledge its ongoing role in colonialism, just as the Brexit vote threatens to further disengage the UK from the wider world. Sayet echoes a journey to England braved by Native ancestors in the 1700s following treatise betrayals — and forces audiences to consider what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world.

    Sayet currently serves as the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program.

    Musician Erik Schilke of Mystic did the sound design and composition for “Where We Belong.”

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