Lieselot Siddiki

young girls

Catho De Cordt, Marieke Schraepen & Maria Zandvliet / KWP

Wed 20 Jan and Thu 21 Jan

20 Jan

20:30

CAMPO nieuwpoort

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21 Jan

20:30

CAMPO nieuwpoort

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Lena Dunham’s Girls live on stage!

More than ever, the young girl violently shakes us with desire, in a world where our desire is insatiable. She’s a capitalist wet dream. She’s seduced and desired. But what fantasies do keep her awake at night?

young girls is a play in which four performers reenact the HBO show Girls by Lena Dunham (2012 - 2017). Or, they try. The show depicts the lives of four twenty-something girls in New York City. So trivial! How hard can that be?

Reenacting the show, a turbulent portrait of the time just before #MeToo, raises questions. What does it mean to be a girl ten years later? How much longer will her success uphold her? Is her story worth telling, or would it be better left as an entry in her diary?

By reenacting out of love and catharsis, the performance seeks to break free from the cliché, limiting scripts imposed on the young girl. Good luck girls!

In 2024, Maria re-enacted The Sound of Music in her successful graduation production De Sont of Mjoezik, with Marieke as the final director. Catho, Marieke and Maria are now continuing this re-enactment of pop culture in young girls.

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Catho De Cordt studied drama at KASK and English Language and Literature at Ghent University. She is active as a writer and theatre maker.

Marieke Schraepen is an actress and theatre maker with a background in philosophy. Together with Sophia Bauer, she creates performances under the collective name Marieke&Sophia.

Maria Zandvliet is a theatre maker and actress. She garnered widespread acclaim with her graduation performance De Sont of Mjoezik.

Credits

creation & performance Catho De Cordt, Marieke Schraepen & Maria Zandvliet in collaboration with Bastiaan Vandendriessche dramaturgy Simon Baetens sound dramaturgy Boris de Klerk outside eye Carolina Maciel de França final direction Lieselot Siddiki light & sound design Lene Maesen costume design Luca Bryssinck production KWP Kunstenwerkplaats co-production Monty partners CAMPO, CCHA, CC De Steiger, O-Festival Rotterdam, Pilar, De Grote Post, Leietheater, 30CC, Mark Liebrecht Schouwburg Mortsel & hetpaleis supported by the Flemish Government & the Flemish Community Commission