Bruno Vanden Broecke - Confession

Lasse Vonck was proclaimed and acclaimed as a child 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 fate to bear, but he is lost; he is looking for a purpose, meaning. On a lusterless spring day, Lasse is so alienated from himself upon waking that he no longer really knows who he is. He cannot even speak anymore. Confessie is inspired by the timeless and weatherless story De Gedaanteverwisseling van Franz Kafka. It sketches a portrait of the human as silent protest. I really have nothing with cars but I had a strange dream it kept me busy for a long time it is 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 one by one all four tires of the white Citroën BX of my father is dismantling 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 is watching it and she does nothing and I run outside the man in his tank top has -poof- dissolved and I want to shout 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 on vacation In the middle of the back seat just a little bit forward between my father and my mother elbows on the side of their chairs and I get to choose the cassette to put in the car radio ‘dear little piranha tear me apart’ Confessie is a new theater text by Raven Ruëll, written for and performed by Bruno Vanden Broecke. Both have been making shows together for 25 years, including Missie (2007), Para (2016), and Klink (2023). Performers: - De Speelman - production - Bruno Vanden Broecke - acting - Raven Ruëll - text & direction - Fred Debrock - photo - Gert Van Hyfte - technique - Jimmie Dimmick - distribution