COLETTE GOOSSENS | Being Britney

Being Britney is a solo performance in which Colette Goossens plays a young woman who imagines herself to be the pop icon Britney Spears. Britney is experiencing an acute psychosis. In an uncontrolled, associative and wild way, she tries to solve fundamental questions of her existence. She is in her bathroom, an intimate space where a world of hallucinations, delusions and extreme emotions unfolds. Being Britney asks questions about psychosis and the care surrounding it. What is a psychosis really? Should we see a psychosis as an end point? Or can we better look at the rich thoughts and experiences that lie hidden beneath it? Via existing and new texts, acting, physicality and rhythm, Colette investigates how mental vulnerability can take on an open form on stage that is not stigmatizing. Being Britney is a continuation of her artistic research in which she makes the inner logic of mental deregulation palpable for an audience. This performance is an organization of CC De Steiger in collaboration with the community center and Psychiatrisch Centrum Menen in the context of the Ten Days of Geestelijke Gezondheid.