Silence of the Dogs - Het Zuidelijk Toneel

Theater en toneel

Hot summer days, hardly any air. A woman seeks cooling, circling between window and kitchen table, day and night. The television on the table spits out images, and a star even twinkles in the window during the day. A pushy neighbor seeks contact: through the window, at the door and eventually even at the table. What's going on here? What drives this woman, that star, that dog and why is there suddenly a pool of blood on the kitchen floor? It is up to the audience to reconstruct the story in this text-less theater piece that looms before you like an image puzzle.

In Silence of the Dogs Ada Ozdogan depicts the resistance of a lonely woman in a hectic and threatening world. She does this again with a bold nod to the film world: Hitchcockian suspense meets Tarentino-esque violence meets Chantal Akerman's eye for the female experience.