Doodgraag (Deadly fond) - Danni Heylen and Hans Van Cauwenberghe

A war reporter has seen the unthinkable... seen children die of hunger, seen people shot dead, and looked death in the eye several times himself. But nothing hits him as deeply as his mother’s resolute choice for euthanasia. “A person wants to live with dignity, a person also wants to die with dignity,” while he struggles with disbelief, grief, and powerlessness. A special cast makes this production extra unique... Danni Heylen, as the mother, in a rarely seen, layered dramatic role. Hans Van Cauwenberghe, as the son who endured the war, but not the gentle determination of his mother. A raw, intimate, and true-to-life conversation between a son and his mother, about loving to live and loving to die. About love, loss, powerlessness, saying goodbye, and acceptance. About how death only really enters when it enters your own house. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes disarmingly witty, always relentlessly honest. ‘Doodgraag’ (Dying to) doesn’t just want to move... This show is part of the TROOST (CONSOLATION) project of the Cultuurregio Cobra. Danni Heylen - Hans Van Cauwenberghe / acting Paul Govaerts - Patrick Van Gompel / script and dramaturgy Ignace Cornelissen / direction Based on the book ‘Memoirs full of life and death’ / Patrick Van Gompel Met thanks to CC De Warande