Club Lam

men become legends, women become myths.

In the Tower Room of Venlo we see two women whose fate we know all too well: Cassandra and Ophelia, advisers of our new leader Gertruid Bolwater, better known as bitch. It is 2050. The Netherlands was flooded and Venlo managed to defend itself against the water thanks to fuss. But the victory attracts climate refugees: Dutchmen who try to colonize the sour meat and the pies with their coffee shops and taco tents. While the advisers try to steer the fate of Trut, it becomes clear what all women in history have in common: they are only remembered when their end is tragic. Murdered, robbed of their voice and drowned in oblivion. Because women who speak the truth are pushed back with one word: hysterical.

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 on breaking.

So monitored Ophelia De Vrede.

And bore cassandra the truth.

And so also fought gertruid for the people.

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)