The Party, Anne-Cécile Van Dalem / Das Fraulein Kompanie

Anne-Cécile Vandalem and Joëlle Sambi draw on a real event that deeply marked Belgium: the death of Sanda Dia in December 2018, following an initiation ritual within an elitist student fraternity. Starting from this tragedy and the trial of the members of Reuzegom, their creative team is undertaking a long-term exploration of the mechanisms that protect elites, the denial of racism, and the reproduction of social privilege. Theatre becomes a space for experimentation, where reality and fiction rub against each other, where silenced narratives can emerge without any promise of consolation or forgiveness. At the crossroads of the political and the intimate, the play seeks to make visible the shadowy zones left by the handling of this story — those unresolved areas that theatre brings into the open.,