Exile in the Land of Forgetting

"Exile in the Land of Forgetting" is a dance-theatre production, created to mark 65 years since the death of the writer Barbu Fundoianu - a Jewish Romanian literary critic, essayist, poet and journalist writing in French (1898, Iasi - 1944, Auschwitz, Poland). The production takes as its starting point the last moments of the writer's life: the interminable hours spent in the deportation wagons bound for the camp at Drancy, and the end of the line - the terrible wait for the train that would carry him to Auschwitz. The director, who is also the choreographer, offers an X-ray of a small group of people caught in the deportation trap, whose feelings swing between confusion, revolt, resignation and estrangement. "I am reduced to a mere number! I carry my life in a suitcase! There is no time left!" (Benjamin Fondane, "Le mal des fantomes")