The upcoming play Diaspora Inferno: From My Grandmother’s Kitchen is a multilingual physical theatre piece that reimagines Dante’s Inferno through the lived experiences of immigrant women. Performed in Albanian, Italian, English, and other languages, it blends personal testimony, ritual, and physical movement to explore themes of womanhood, exile, injustice, survival, and resilience. Rooted in kitchen memories, spaces of warmth, loss, and cultural transmission, the piece traces a journey through metaphorical and literal hells shaped by displacement, war, and marginalisation. Inspired by the methodologies of Jacques Lecoq and Augusto Boal, the performance uses image theatre, ensemble devising, and expressive movement to give form to stories often left untold. Each scene transforms personal and collective trauma into acts of resistance and rebirth, offering a powerful reflection on identity, memory, and the enduring strength of women across generations. Diaspora Inferno is both a reckoning with the past and a celebration of survival through shared ritual and embodied storytelling.

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