de Roovers - What only we know

A twelve-year-old brother plays fighting games on the computer, to the death. His sister Nour has no extra life. She will just make it to her seventh birthday. To distract her, make the pain bearable, and give the farewell a place, he invents stories in which she grows up, leaves the nest, meets a first love, and suffers her first heartbreak. This way, he lets her fall asleep in a story, with the promise never to forget her. Farewell, illness, and death are heavy subjects, especially for children. That is why the stories and imagination use a sneak path: playfully, these themes can be experienced, touched, and comforted without directly confronting. Elvis Peeters and Nicole Van Bael wrote the novella, the Roovers made it a tender and expressive youth performance with shadow play. With magical silhouettes by Ona-Lisa Van Haver and the narration of Luc Nuyens and Sofie Sente, an intimate world arises in which life, farewell, and memory become tangible. A performance that touches, comforts, and brings imagination together.