High-Rise

Following the advice of her brother Bobby, Alice, an eccentric mathematician, moves to an apartment on the twenty-fifth floor of a modern high-rise. The building is fully equipped: a gym, a supermarket, and a lush rooftop terrace. The higher you go, the more expensive the apartments become. All necessities are readily available, and every comfort is provided – for a while. Because from the moment Alice moves in, inexplicable events start occurring. Gradually, the building, along with the relationships between its residents, begins to deteriorate. Strangely, no one seems willing to intervene. While Alice tries to grasp the gradual decay of the building, the other residents adapt. Some even disappear. Her brother Bobby refuses to leave his apartment. Meanwhile, the wealthy architect of the building, Royal, peers down with fascination from his penthouse on the roof. Simultaneously, the disgruntled documentary filmmaker Wilder relentlessly makes his way up from the ground floor. High-Rise is an absurd, unsettling, and musical portrayal of humanity in free fall.
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With High-Rise, KONVOOI raises the question: “How to cope with the feeling that the world will become uninhabitable in the foreseeable future?” They explore not only the complacent issues of our society, but also the nature of fear itself. KONVOOI’s familiar style of classical harmony is combined with electronic music for this unsettling vision of the future, where classical music, bass, and drums take center stage.

directed by Belle van Heerikhuizen
set Ruben Wijnstok
costume Esmée Thomassen
lightning design Stefan Dijkman
compositional contribution, sound design Aniek de Rooij
dramaturgy Liesbeth Coltof
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performance Jasper Stoop, Jacob de Groot, Jasper van Hofwegen, Victor IJdens, Bart Sietsema and Imke Smit