Bowling Buffalo

Somewhere along a highway stands Bowling Buffalo, a place that still looks exactly as it did in 1994 and that has been run for years by four young women – the buffala’s. They once started there as student workers, but meanwhile, they are part of the permanent furniture. In their seemingly eternal cocoon, they wait for customers, while they bicker about their loose love lives, drink milkshakes, and smoke cigarettes. Until one of them announces her departure. She wants to take a new direction in her life and leave the bowling alley behind. All those years, the buffala’s lived in a wonderful feeling of timelessness, under the fluorescent light of the retro bowling decor and their own unbridled imagination. But now that someone has dragged the concept of ‘finiteness’ into it, all the pins are falling in record time. Bowling Buffalo is a Wildcard performance by Compagnie Cecilia about nostalgia, thirty-somethings, and dreams that may or may not be dusty. Played by Hanne Timmermans, Lien Thys, Kiana Porte & Annelore Crollet, directed by Daan Borloo. Duration: 85 minutes