Het Zuidelijk Toneel & Ada Özdogan
Hot summer days, barely any air. A woman seeks relief from the heat, circling between window and kitchen table, day and night. The television on the table spews out images; in the window, a star twinkles even in daytime. Only the dog that appears at the door can coax a smile from the woman. An intrusive neighbour seeks contact: past the window, at the door and eventually even at the table. What is 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 almost wordless piece of theatre, which looms up before you like a visual puzzle.
In Silence of the Dogs Ada Ozdogan depicts the resistance of a lonely woman in a hectic and threatening world. Once again she does so with a big wink to the world of film: Hitchcockian suspense meets Tarantino-esque violence meets Chantal Akerman’s eye for female experience. Last season, actress Julia Ghysels won a Theo d’Or for her role in Ada’s Holly Goosebumps, a theatre blockbuster inspired by iconic film soundtracks.
45 minutes before the start, Annette Embrechts, dance and theatre journalist for de Volkskrant, will give an introduction. You can reserve a free place for this during the booking process.
CREDITS
Director and writer Ada Ozdogan
Performed by
Gillis Biesheuvel
Keja Klaasje Kwestro
Photography Sofie Knijff
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