Buiten Zinnen: Regieopleiding en Mimeopleiding van ATD

The students work from literary texts by authors who moved close to psychological disruption and vulnerability in their lives and work, including Kane, Perec, Hedva and Gogol. From these texts, they search for their own theatrical language, in which not only the word, but also the body and the experience are central.

How do we maintain space for the unnameable, in the theatre and beyond? Susan Sontag already wrote that we, especially in art, suffer from an obsession with interpretation: what does what we see mean, how can we interpret the experience? These scenes are therefore an exercise in balance: how do we make space for a theme such as mental vulnerability, without losing the "other" (the abstract, the sensitive, the body, the eroticism, the poetry and all other words that can represent the less tangible). Frascati maker Gerben Vaillant supervises this project.