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.

/Ragazze Quartet 2022
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.

direction Jorinde Keesmaat / dramaturgy Lalina Goddard / scenography Sammy Van den Heuvel /  costume design Sasja Strengholt / light design Tim van ‘t Hof / kinetic typography Bureau Merkwaardig