Louis Janssens - Desire

Desire

With a newly written text as a starting point, Louis Janssens is on stage together with three players. Four lonely souls take us into their personal thoughts, doubts, fears and desires. They share what they normally would not dare to show to each other. In Desire they do that, only to discover that they are actually quite similar in that respect. Biographical experiences are interwoven with snapshots about universal forms of love, the history of the gay bar and the energy of friendship. They talk, stammer, sing and move restlessly across the empty stage.

Universal desire

Desire is such a moving performance about the desire to experience something. To be loved, to be touched. The universal desire for connection is made tangible in a playful and personal way. The audience is taken into a recognizable and intimate world of thoughts.

#newyoung

After the solo performance Serenade (selected for #nieuwjong of the Vlaams TheaterFestival 2021) and the duet Analoog with Willem de Wolf (selected for the Dutch Theater Festival and the Vlaams TheaterFestival), Louis Janssens is now creating the performance Desire with a group of young queer players . It is the next step in creating performances that are able to depict a poetic and intimate, as well as a joyful and playful world.