Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography            

Each space grows within a specific frame that is shaped through dialogue; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the materials, with the dramaturg, with the production team, with the artists and builders in the workshops, with the stage technicians. Ultimately, the built space engages in a dialogue with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.

/NTGent 2025
During his final days in hospice, Rogério Rodrigues, a respected Portuguese journalist, started taking notes to write his final article. He died before he could finish it. His notebook went to his son, Tiago. When he opened it, all he saw were lines and scribbles. Mixing memories, songs and fragments of his father’s writings, the son aims to imagine the unwritten pages of his father's last work, a small victory over death. 

A testimony to absence, the floor of the hospital room where Rogério dies again and again, has grown into a mountainous landscape, a portal to another world.  

text and direction Tiago Rodrigues / dramaturgy Kaatje De Geest / scenography Sammy Van den Heuvel /costume design Ilse Vandenbussche / light design Dennis Diels / original music and arrangements Hélder Gonçalves