TRAUM - Roeshoofd

TRAUM is the second performance by Roeshoofd, the company around Simon De Vos and Lukas Bulteel, who were previously our guests with Er gaat iemand komen (2024). For this new creation, they are inspired by the cult graphic novel Maus van Art Spiegelman. Simon De Vos wrote a new theater text for this. Siem, a young thirty-something, is at a crossroads in his life. His career as a theater director is not getting off the ground, his relationship with Lucia is under pressure, and the recognition he desires from his father Garnik is not forthcoming. For his new theater performance, Siem decides to record interviews with his father in the hope of finding answers to questions about a complex and painful war past. What follows is a reconstruction in which he tries to find out who he is today, and above all, who he wants to be. By situating the story in an indeterminate time and place and using animal masks, TRAUM becomes an absurd allegory about a great war between Foxes and Rabbits, a frame story of events. TRAUM is a search for what traces a beastly past leaves on the generations that come after. With animal masks by FroeFroe, Evelien Bosmans, Geert Van Rampelberg, Lukas Bulteel and Lotte Valckenaers and music by Tim Vanhamel! text & direction Simon De Vos / cast Geert Van Rampelberg, Lukas Bulteel, Evelien Bosmans & Lotte Valckenaers / music & cast Tim Vanhamel / scenography Stef Stessel / dramaturgy Mieke Versyp / costumes & heads Astrid Michaelis / light Mark Van Denesse / internship direction & text Phara De Jaegere & Inke Swyzen / in collaboration with Productiehuis Ouroboros, Theater FroeFroe, RIF, De Klap, c o r s o / introduction Roeshoofd / © Ramy Moharam roeshoofd.be