Family

For the performance Family, theatre maker Louis Janssens has invited four actors from different generations to join him on stage. They tell stories, ask questions and seek comfort, support and recognition from each other. It is about how family ties connect us and how they inescapably define our lives. About blood family and chosen family. About parents, children, growing up and the fear of being left alone. The actors are on stage as themselves, but throughout the performance they also seem to become more and more each other's family.

Family is a poetic and recognizable text performance about the universal phenomenon of family. Starting from a queer perspective, they tell a larger human story about having and searching for a family. Not everyone has children, but ultimately, we are all children.   

In recent years, Louis Janssens created the solo performance Serenade (Het TheaterFestival 2021), the duet Analoog with Willem de Wolf (Het TheaterFestival and Nederlands Theaterfestival 2023) and Desire (Het TheaterFestival 2024). Now he is creating the performance Family together with an intergenerational queer cast consisting of Peter Seynaeve (NTGent, Het Zuidelijk Toneel), Maureen Teeuwen (Maatschappij Discordia, mugmetdegoudentand), Mourad Baaiz (Artemis/hetpaleis/Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Schauspielhaus Bochum) & Francis Geeraert (Compagnie Barbarie).


In Dutch
Duration: TBA