The story is told by three white and three black actors. All actors have a double role. They play a character from 1863, such as a slave owner, a freed man, and a prime minister, but also the actor who plays that role. Every time they step out of their historical role, they discuss with each other what they are playing and what it does to them. One of the actresses is Rochelle Deekman. “I play a liberated person and myself, but that is of course also written out. It is fun and interesting to play both roles. The role of the liberated person tells what it is like to be a liberated person. And the character Rochelle goes much more into how it relates to the theme. Rochelle says in the piece: but the world has changed, it is no longer so black and white, perpetrators and victims. But I personally think that not much has changed at all. And I think that there is a lack of empathy for the other person, how someone experiences something. And that is very quickly overlooked, ‘yes, but it was a long time ago’.”
The past and present of our shared history of slavery come together in the performance ‘I’m sorry’
