Club Lam

men become legends. Women are myths.

An eco-feminist music theater performance about power, myths and the danger of leadership.

It is 2050. The Netherlands is largely flooded. Only Venlo remained dry and is named the new capital. The Dutch go south, including their matchbars, start-ups and podcasts. But here too the Maas swells. The water crawls. The threat is real.

If politics continues to meet and the people party as if the world is not burning, one woman intervenes: bitch. She saves the city with nothing but her courage and a handful of bras. Her deed is celebrated as heroic. She is crowned president. As savior of the new homeland.

But how do you celebrate a victory if you feel that this is only the start of much more misery?

In the side room of a victory festival is bitch with her two advisers: Athena, the goddess of strategy, and aphrodite, the goddess of the heart and desire. Together they look back, they make plans, collide with truth and tactics. While the music drains down, bitch struggles: what does it mean to have power in a world that refuses to change?

Slowly it becomes clear: her real enemy is not the water, but the collective desire to look away. The urge to mitigate everything, to forget, to celebrate, while the world is breaking.

As Cassandra saw everything and was not believed.

Like Jean d’Arc moisture and burned.

Just as Gertruid Bolwater has become a statue.

Women who speak the truth are still pushed back with one word: hysterical.

bitch is a musical, theatrical ode to the unwanted fortune tellers of our time. A ritual for women who refuse to laugh away their intuition. A scream from within, in the language of struggle, poetry and pop music.

“The bravest thing you'll ever do is live in the truth

And let your heart speak, even if nobody believes her. ”

Credits

Genre: Music Theater/Dramacomedy

Themes: hysteria, climate crisis, inequality, oat milk elite

Cast: Ayla Cekin Satijn, Ella Kamerbeek and Marloes IJpelaar

Text: Marloes IJpelaar

Video art: Daniela Petrovic

Final direction: Anouk Beugels (Nanouk Productions)