The actor,
director and drama instructor started her artistic carreer as a scholarship
coworker of Independent Theatre. He makes an honest confession about the
initial difficulties, his Roma origin, love for theatre and the heroes who
helped and inspired him on his way. He directed the own play of Independent
Theatre, Chameleon Girl, which deals with the real life stories of Roma – and
non-Roma – youngsters participating in the "Roma heroes" workshops.
The play presents the story of a teenage girl who has to make a decision to
live her own life instead of following other's expectations.
What can a schoolgirl do to fight injustice? What do we look for in pedagogues? What can we do for our children to be taught of equality and accepting each other in school? In primary school, I always sat in the first or second row. I hated it! I always wanted to sit in the last row because there, I could have been next to the window watching the whole class. From time to time, some of the "worst" boys were seated next to me. The rules for table plan were the following: 1. bad students sit next to good students 2. if you are a good student and do something wrong (which happened to me quite often) then you will get a Gypsy next to you For a few days or for months, it depended on the scale of the punishment. I liked those boys because they found this process unfair, too. I had three seatmate by this method in the first four years of primary school. When teachers realized that this seating arrangement was no problem for us and we even made friends, I ...
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