Meeuw Jonge Theatermakers - 2022
scenography & costume design
An interactive performance about the question: when becomes a new place a home?
What do a former Philips employee and a status holder from Drachten have in common? They both came to Drachten to build a new life there. Alone or with a family. In good spirits or full of uncertainty.
Meeuw Jonge Theatermakers and Schouwburg De Lawei went looking for their stories and interviewed ten people who moved to Drachten over the past years. Did they succeed in making Drachten their home? Or will home always be the place they came from?
Large and medium-sized transport crates are shifted, turned around and played with by the actors, giving the scenography a dynamic and transformative character. Inside each crate is a new world that is revealed with each new story. During the final scene, we see the coffins side by side. They form a street in which all these stories live side by side.
concept - Carlo Scheldwacht & Wendy Viel
final direction - Wendy Viel
scenography & costume design - Leoni Pirenne
creators & actors - Ronald Kalter, Stijn Schootstra, Jante Stekelenburg & Sybren van der Velde
directing assistent - Vanity Gerrits
research and interviews - Lisa Frenkel
technician - Roelof Nolles
production - Coco de Haas
photography - Lucas Kemper