CASA
"Do we migrate by choice, by necessity, or are we simply following in the footsteps of our ancestors?
Movement runs through the blood, and in the throat lingers the bitter taste of farewell."
CASA - A Solo Performance by Andrea Albernaz
The text of the play CASA was awarded Second Prize in the 10th "Francisco Nieva" Competition 2024 by the Rural Dramatic Center of Mira, Spain.
CASA is an intimate journey through memory and the body. A solo performance of object and sensory theater, created and performed by Andrea Albernaz, with dramaturgy by French playwright Georges Perla and direction by Århus-based artist Juliana Appel.
The piece emerges from a deep need: to tell a personal story that is, at the same time, universal.
Andrea has lived in 28 houses. Some she remembers vividly; others she would rather forget. Through fragments of memory —sometimes blurred, sometimes painfully sharp— she reconstructs the map of a life in constant motion.
CASA is a theatrical collage where childhood, exile, affection, loss, border crossings, and the persistent question —Where do I belong?— come together.
The performance explores themes of mobility, displacement, foreignness, the longing for home, and identity as a shifting territory. It also reflects on the present: the pandemic, isolation, and the forced inhabiting of our most intimate solitudes.
With elements of object theater, miniature scenography, and sensory performance, the actress guides the audience through the hidden corners of her memory. Each scene is a house — a door opened to a moment in her life, a space inhabited by objects, scents, sounds, and stories.
CASA is, ultimately, a poetic act of resistance: to narrate, to build, to inhabit, and to share.
Keywords: theatre of objects | sensory theatre | immersive
The play will premiere in October 2021.
