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Spelen & Maken: Maakblok
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    18

    2025
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In a world that continually declares peace while preparing for the next war, a group of almost-adult humans attempts to rehearse something like a life. Thrown into a cruel reality they can’t fully comprehend, they cope by inventing a universe of their own: a dream of peace that gradually mutates into a shared nightmare. Around one long table, they celebrate and grieve, confess and accuse, wash away sins, and share guilt. Violence seeps in like an infected wound that never heals: not because they want it, but because, somewhere along the way, they were told, forced, or gently manipulated to believe it is the only possible answer – passed on from parents to children, from history to body, from one war to the next. Are they trapped in someone else’s story, or already rehearsing a kind of future? The winner takes it all, as one once said. We invite you to sit at this table. Will you feast, serve, or turn your back?

This performance emerges from a lab with second-year Play&Make students, focusing on the aftermath of war: what happens when humanity tries to reorganize itself around the idea of peace, or the supposed end of war. We worked through Peter Szondi to think about how new contents force new theatrical forms, read Eumenides as a founding myth of patriarchal peace within the Rule of Law, and studied different peace treaties written after major conflicts. Alongside films such as The Act of Killing, Dr. Strangelove, Incendies, and The Zone of Interest, and a lecture by Brazilian professor Felipe Freller on twentieth-century discourses of peace, the students followed Rodrigo’s Cannibal Lab methodology: first saturating themselves with an excess of references, then (in)digesting them into embodied material. Our working (in-process) conclusion is unsettling: apparently, wars never really end; they are hidden, displaced somewhere, or already on their way. Again.

Trigger warning
This experiment rehearses something like a life. And living is a dangerous thing. Therefore, it may contain political mistakes, loud music, misrepresentation, strobe lights, nudity, Greek tragedy, fascism, and other potentially disturbing images and ideas.