Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography

Each space grows within a specific frame that is formed through conversations; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the material, 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 conversation with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.
Wozzeck
Seraphim
No yogurt for the dead
Tipping point
Angel's bone
Le nozze di Figaro
The man who fell from the sky
A safe space for male bodies
Szenen aus Goethes Faust
The world’s wife
Vanishing point
Die Vorüberlaufenden
The future is not what it used to be
Solitary dialogues
Solitude
Each time we fall a city rises
Quartett
A requiem for lost things
Als niemand me ziet
Totentanz
#truth: ein sokratischer Abend
Ich rufe meine Brüder
3000 Euro
Ich bin wie ihr, ich liebe Äpfel


sammyvandenheuvel@gmail.com

No yogurt for the dead

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 directionTiago Rodrigues 

dramaturgyKaatje De Geest

scenographySammy Van den Heuvel

costume designIlse Vandenbussche

light designDennis Diels

original music and arrangements Hélder Gonçalves

/NTGent 2025