IK BEN KAMER 15 - Speels Collectief

Theater en toneel

They would walk for hours, some would lie in bed - with their arms entwined - for days, some would make diamond paintings of dolphins, some would only communicate by knocking on their bathroom wall, some would secretly start an app group, one of them had his first kiss.

I AM ROOM 15 moves between audio documentary and theater. The performance is about life in a psychiatric clinic. About and with people who meet each other at their most vulnerable and how rare and beautiful that can be. About people for whom surviving is a heroic act every day. About people who didn't know that falling so deep existed.

In the Netherlands, more than 1.5 million people receive mental health care, which are the highest figures ever. Yet there are still many stigmas attached to people who are 'crazy', people with anxiety, and depressed people. I AM ROOM 15 opens windows into our thinking about these people and the system from which they fell one day. In this performance we see the colorful mini-society in a psychiatric clinic. A society of crazy, very ordinary people.

Excl. consumption
Trigger warning: suicide and depression