'Oh my sweet land', a calm tale with blood-curdling content

Theatre maker Corinne Jaber got nothing from her father about his roots, except his passion for cooking and good food -she says in an interview. The outbreak of the Syrian civil war made her curious about her father's background. Together with Palestinian author Amir Nizar Zuabi, Jaber interviewed Syrian refugees in refugee camps. The result is this monologue, in which a fictional half-Syrian-half-German woman is played by a half-German-half-Syrian woman,...