Take-off drama

Take-off, the graduation festival of LUCA School of Arts Campus Lemmens De master students of LUCA Drama take you on an artistic flight again to wave goodbye to the 30CC season! After years of intense training, experimenting, and refining, they say goodbye to their education at LUCA School of Arts with Take-off 2026 and set course for the professional art and music world. In a summery setting, you will discover the theater talent of tomorrow at various locations in Leuven. After months of rehearsing and creating, the students are completely ready to touch you, inspire you, and blow you away. Friday 19/06/2026 11.00 - 12.00: Not all birds can catch the wind 8 (Julia Lucas) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys Ona her dad is a bird He flies to the South waits until winter is over and then comes back again Wiene lives next to Ona He wants to know everything about her dad's flight Together they discover how the impossible still seems possible But in that dream, small cracks appear Slowly the real world breaks. Can they, despite that headwind, still find their wings together? 17.00 – 18.00: Pluto (8+) (Lore Verhoeven) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys Pluto is an intergalactic performance about big dreams and small planets. In multipurpose room Galileo Galilei (the former Klokhuis) we set off on a mission to Pluto, led by Charon and her planet club. Toen Pluto suddenly became a dwarf planet, they decided to go anyway, to save Pluto's honor. While the rocket warms up and the countdown clock ticks, the question grows: what does discovering actually mean? Pluto is an ode to Pluto, to curiosity, and to discoverers who keep believing. 20.30 – 21:30: Sinking (Arjan Schepers) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys De Weense opera. A young actress is the opening act. In her hand: a glass of champagne. She has to toast to 'art' tonight, even though she would rather sink into the ground. S I N K I N G is a textual performance about failing, building things together, and dealing with pressure from the outside world. Freely inspired by the tragic story behind the construction of the Vienna opera. What if the opera is not sturdy enough? What if the architects only bluffed? Then not only is the opera poorly founded, but the architects also sink away. Of course, a ballet or waltz cannot be missing. Saturday 20/06/2026 17.30 – 18.30: KRIEKENFLAP ( Lotte Smets) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys KRIEKENFLAP is a monologue where masks are carefully removed, where self-relativization and self-mockery alternate, and where humor is both a weapon and a defense mechanism. In between, I try to tell what occupies me. Secretly, without you noticing and being able to decide to leave. And it's with a ukulele. Because we are allowed to laugh sometimes. 20.00 - 21.00: WUSSY (Roisin Callaerts) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys In WUSSY, Roisin Callaerts tries to get rid of her insecurity. After a little more than twenty years of life, four of which at theater school, her internal critic – fueled by criticism from others and especially her own doubts and fears – has become too big. So big that there is barely any room left on the stage she longs for and fears at the same time. The stage she is now claiming. A searching twenty-something, an angry teenager, a little girl, are all versions that want to be heard, and to enter the next chapter of her life, she must first give them a voice. With her master's thesis performance, Roisin invites you to stand up for yourself, allow your anger, and stop people-pleasing because being yourself is (finally) good enough. The result is a performance where rhyme and rhythm, dance and music come together, with a murder that everyone would want to commit. Sunday 21/06/2026 17.30 – 18.30: SAD SAD CICADAS (Barbara Revalk and Ailie Ireland Dupont) Where?: BAC ART LAB Did you know that in the US there are cicadas that live underground for thirteen years? An old house. Four cabaret performers and a ghost. They have lived and played together for thirteen years. There, in that house, which has just been declared uninhabitable. In the draft, a disco ball spins slowly around its axis. A trumpet echoes through the halls. Glitter sneaks between the splinters and cracks. The ghost watches, and between performances, the residents deal with the news. They meet each other and themselves again. What tensions and heartbreak hang in the air? What history is being lost? How do they process the death of the house and their past thirteen years? With SAD SAD CICADAS we go in search of meaning and togetherness when the spaces for it disappear. A poetic performance with performances, dialogue, music, and movement. A location performance in an old building. A fiction that dares to be both spectacular and intimate. 20.00 – 21.00: Grise (Loena Ottou) Where?: 30CC/Wagehuys 1 + 1 + 1 = one Look. Really look. Here she stands on stage, alone with herself. She tries to live in the moment with them. To be. Is that possible, if the past and the future are so close? What is now? Grise is the result of an intuitive creation process that brings three women together in one monologue. in the storyline 30CC as future lab