Twice Into Oblivion

It was a massacre the likes of which the Dominican Republic had never seen…but nobody talks about it anymore. Enter theatre director Daphné Ménard, who uses the power of the performing arts to make sure we never again forget the country’s 1937 Parsley genocide of its Haitian immigrants.Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Quisqueya and a hidden genocide.In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic. Daphné Ménard, a Haitian theatre director, brought together actors from both parts of the island to work through this event. This unprecedented creative project demanded that people from both sides summon up the darker realms of their histories.