Every war happening right now has a previous war inside it. Every genocide carries the ghost of one before. Old wounds reinfect and become our excuse to ask a younger generation to kill again. It is not being done to us — we do it to ourselves.

Global Arts Corps (US/France), in cooperation with Qendra Multimedia (Kosovo) are now embarking on a new production involving a more global normalization of atrocities across borders. Caravan is a production about time travel backwards in time to review our own identities in this context.

In theatrical leaps a multinational company of actors travel back across their own generations to visit their ancestral and indigenus past. In the process they watch their very identities shift and change to an almost unrecognizable humanity.

They will not be alone.

A “Greek Chorus” of children, ages 6 to 12, will anonymously be part of the rehearsal process, periodically patching into, and interacting with, the work of the actors—children holding adults accountable for centuries of slaughter, serving as our conscience from the future as they interrogating the players with the innocence and imagination that hasn’t yet learned to rationalize violence.

The production will pick up more children as they tour. From country to country, city to city, and town to town actors and musicians from GAC will travel ahead to engage with local children to fold their insights and reactions into the local performances for the adults who will form the local audiences.

The production asks whether identity itself can be expanded beyond our own prison bars to discover that we can drop our masks and still not die. And is it possible for this theatrical story, this fairy tale, this child's hope to be received and interpreted in the same way by audiences in their home countries?