THE SCREAM
May 7
Theater Utrecht / Floor Houwink ten Cate
THE SCREAM explores what happens when experiences of pain and pleasure are finally taken seriously.
Five performers use their bodies as language, resistance and testimony in a sensory performance at the intersection of theatre, film and music.
When the body no longer stays silent
- Date
- May 7, 2027
- Genre
- Theatre
- Language
- English
- Location
- Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Rabozaal
Why is our pain still not taken seriously? Why is our pleasure considered less valid? And why does the white, male body remain the norm in healthcare? For centuries, experiences of women and genderqueer people have been marginalised, ignored or mystified in art, science and medical systems. THE SCREAM explores what happens when that history is disrupted and the body itself takes back control.
In this multidisciplinary performance, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani, Melyn Chow, Francesca Lazzeri, Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura and Milou van Duijnhoven bring a layered and historically charged narrative about body, power and expression. Across generations and life stages, they show how pain and desire are suppressed, and what happens when an internalised scream can no longer be contained.
Director Floor Houwink ten Cate builds on her earlier work around intimate and political corporeality. With a text by Floor and Lotte Houwink ten Cate and Esther Duysker, live cinema, a boundary-pushing composition by Annelinde Bruijs, and a performance installation by Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, a sensory, concentrated and explosive theatre experience emerges.
THE SCREAM is a plea for bodily autonomy over pain and pleasure.
Credits
concept, film, text, direction
Floor Houwink ten Cate
text
Esther Duysker
performers
Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani, Melyn Chow, Francesca Lazzeri, Milou van Duijnhoven
set design
Dennis Vanderbroeck
music, composition
Annelinde Bruijs
