PREMIERE ★ ANNIHILATION | Thomas Ryckewaert

A female biologist joins an expedition to Area X: a zone where nature has reclaimed the land and previous expeditions ended in disappearance, madness or suicide. She is the only one who returns. In quarantine, she is interrogated by an anonymous agency that tries to reconstruct what happened. But what returns from Area X no longer coincides with who was sent out. Thomas Ryckewaert and performer Ika Schwander create a theatrical adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's cult novel Annihilation: a universe where horror, science fiction and ecology come together. Field diary fragments, interrogation, scientific observations and flashbacks form a labyrinth in which the boundary between observer and observed begins to leak. Annihilation is climate fiction for the stage. A performance about the moment when nature looks back.