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

The world’s wife

This chamber opera composed by Tom W. Green is based on a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy and reflects on collective, historical, and mythological stories, retold from a female perspective. One after the other, a variety of women, some fictional, some not, take the floor. Five performers embark on a journey towards the (re)discovery of a collective and individual female voice.

To the pulse of the characters, the stage morphs from a little house in the woods to a beehive to a dirt yard with scattered planters — one for each performer to nestle in. The planters become cocoons that burst open to give each performer her illuminated platform.


directionJorinde Keesmaat 

dramaturgyLalina Goddard 

scenographySammy Van den Heuvel

costume designSasja Strengholt

light designTim van ‘t Hof

kinetic typographyBureau Merkwaardig

/Ragazze Quartet 2022