CARMEN LIDIA VIDU’S “MIGRATION DIARY. NEW YORK CITY EDITION” AT LA MAMA THEATER

This June, the legendary La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club welcomes the return of a Romanian production after more than four decades with Migration Diary. New York City Edition — a raw, visually immersive new multimedia theater experience created by award-winning Romanian director Carmen Lidia Vidu.

Presented by La MaMa in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, the production brings real lives to the stage inside one of the world’s most influential homes of experimental theater. No invented characters. No fictional dialogue. Just the stories people carry across borders.

Built through an extensive documentary process of interviews, personal archives, video diaries, and autobiographical testimony, Migration Diary continues the groundbreaking artistic method Vidu created more than a decade ago for her internationally acclaimed Diary of Romania (Jurnal de România) series, presented across Europe at major festivals and theaters. Performed by Sam Xu, Lia Fietz, Ana-Maria Bandean, and Ellen Ko, the…