The first episode exploring issues of identity in Georgia. Nicolas Kerszenbaum is a playwright from France, doing research in Georgia for a play on Abkhazia, a region in the South Caucasus which struggles for it’s own independence and identity as an independent, sovereign state, both from Georgia and from Russia. To follow Nicolas’s work: https://www.franchement-tu.com/ We explore the identity of a small country. We explore identities built on what they lost. Why is this place, Abhrazia, important to so many people’s identity? To what extent do we control of our selves? To what extent do we know ourselves? What happens to identity with change over time? How do actors embody identities other than their own? How do playwrights write for characters with identities other than their own? To follow Nicolas’s work: https://www.franchement-tu.com/