Confession

25 years after ‘Jan, mijn vriend’, Raven Ruëll writes a new piece of theater for Bruno Vanden Broecke. The older they get, the clearer their collaboration and language. Raven has the patent on and the talent to build an immersive narrative in the simplest and most poignant terms and to touch essential themes. Bruno likes to empathize with these kinds of people and portraits. Lasse Vonck was proclaimed and acclaimed as a prodigy by press and public as a young artist. Thirty years later, that is no longer the case. That people have forgotten him over the years, he finds a bearable fate, but he is lost; he is looking for a purpose, meaning. On a spring day without luster, Lasse is so alienated from himself upon waking that he no longer knows who he is. He cannot even speak anymore. 'Confessie' is inspired by the timeless story 'De Gedaanteverwisseling' by Franz Kafka. It sketches a portrait of man as silent protest. A new theater text by Raven Ruëll, written for and performed by Bruno Vanden Broecke. Both have been making performances together for 25 years, including 'Missie' (2007), 'Para' (2016), and 'Klink' (2023). I really have nothing to do with cars but I had a strange dream it kept me busy for a long time it's about a-how do you say that-a family car I am nine years old and my mother and I are looking out the window We see a strongly muscular man in a tank top who is dismantling all four tires of the white Citroën BX of my father one by one then he takes out a sledgehammer and smashes all the windows into smithereens happily tears all the seats-front and back-into shreds rips out the car radio breaks off the side mirrors pulls out the steering wheel and my mother watches it and she does nothing and I walk outside the man in his tank top has -poof- dissolved and I want to call out I want to scream but I can't do it I can't do it again stand up for myself why is that so difficult and I look at what remains of the Citroën I see the spot where I always sat when we left for vacation in the middle of the back seat a bit to the front between my father and my mother elbows on the side of their seats and I get to choose the cassette to put in the car radio ‘dear little piranha tear me apart’ Text and direction Raven Ruëll | Spel Bruno Vanden Broecke | Techniek Gert Van Hyfte | Foto Fred Debrock | Productie De Speelman | Spreiding Jimmie Dimmick