Cite as: The Most Unsatisfied Town II: A New Play by Amy Evans, staged reading, ICI Berlin, 27 April 2010, act 2-2, video recording, mp4, 25:28 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e100427_5>
27 Apr 2010

The Most Unsatisfied Town II

Video in English

Act 2-2

Format: mp4
Length: 00:25:28
First published on: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/unsatisfied-town-2/
Rights: © ICI Berlin

Part of the Staged Reading

The Most Unsatisfied Town II: A New Play by Amy Evans

There are three parts to this game. The beginning, where you set up your strategy. The midgame, where you execute the strategy. And the endgame, where anything is possible. The loser may become the victor, and the victor, the loser. The game may end in a draw, or in a crushing defeat. In the endgame we find out what all of our sacrifices, all of our hard work, have truly been worth …

On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, a man who had come to Germany seeking asylum, burned to death while shackled to the floor of a Dessau jail cell. Three years later two police officers were prosecuted on charges of wrongful death and acquitted. Massive protests resulted in an appeal of the verdict, and, five years to the day of Jalloh’s death, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in favor of re-opening the case against the police. Written in response to these events, The Most Unsatisfied Town highlights the insidious ways that institutionalized racism and asylum policy leave individuals vulnerable to gross human rights violations, and explores tensions between perceived truth and reality, reparation and gratification, triumph and loss, and the personal cost of mobilizing for social justice.

Playwright and performer Amy Evans seeks through her work to critically examine the impact of displacement, alienation and political violence on the human spirit. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and her work has appeared in several publications, including ‘Velocity: The Best of Apples and Snakes’ (Black Spring Press, 2003); ‘Mythen, Masken, Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinforschung in Deutschland’ (Unrast, 2005), and ‘How Long Is Never?’ (Josef Weinberger, 2007). Amy Evans is currently a Fellow at the ICI Berlin.

Venue

ICI Berlin
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With

Jonathan Aikins
Zandile Darko
Martha Fessehatzion
Leander R. Graf
Moses Leo
Lara Möhlenhof
Veronica Naujocks
Michael Ojake

Organized by

Amy Evans
With support by Africavenir