Nino Haratischwili

Supra is the traditional Georgian table and plays a central role in Georgian social life: Georgian food, local wine, and polyphonic Georgian singing are the ingredients for this celebration of community. Author and director Nino Haratischwili invites us to explore and relive this tradition from a female perspective. Together with four musicians from Georgia and three actresses from Hamburg, everyone sits down together to eat, drink, sing, and tell stories about women in Georgia, the conditions there, and the desire for a different order of things.

The supra is largely a male-patriarchal tradition, although the women, their beauty, and their cooking skills are always celebrated at the table. The traditional sequence follows a fixed dramaturgy. Toasts to the hosts, the homeland, love, life, the deceased, and descendants, as well as to women, are an integral part of the supra ritual. In between, improvisation is allowed.

Nino Haratischwili's Supra is a celebration that negotiates new and old attitudes in order to laugh, cry, and enjoy community together.