NIUSIA at Theatre503

Following a sell-out, Scotsman Fringe First award-winning Edinburgh premiere, the debut work from Filipa Bragança Award-nominated artist Beth Paterson makes its London premiere!

Niusia was a Holocaust survivor. She saved people’s lives in the camps, set up a new life for her family as a refugee, and was an iridescent entertainer. But her granddaughter, Beth, only remembers an angry, dying woman.

She’s ready to learn her stories, but what she discovers is all the questions she didn’t know existed (and wasn’t allowed to ask).

Through NIUSIA, Beth weaves together memories, handed-down stories and interviews to examine the precarity of identity and the haphazard cultural legacy second, third and fourth generation immigrants are handed. She asks: what does remembrance look like when all I remember is the space where questions should go?

A multi-award-winning company whose works have toured across Australia and internationally, a ry presentation is a Naarm-based production house focused on platforming the voices and works of creatives who have emerged from historically disenfranchised communities.