Prices
| + 26 years old | €20.00 |
|---|---|
| - 26 years old | €16.00 |
| - 18 years old | €10.00 |
| increased subsidy | €3.00 |
for everyone from 15 year
This performance has surtitles.
The performers are non-professional actors aged between 14 and 20. The texts were not written by them, but by a group of other young people. The performance contains explicit language and descriptions of sexually transgressive behaviour. A strobe light is used.
Performance in Dutch, with English and/or French subtitles
‘With your back in the sand and the sun on your face. Your beautiful best friend helps you to rub sunscreen on your body. Her hands move up and down. She smiles. You’re dying to tell her how wonderful she looks today. And how much you love her. But you’re afraid of ruining your friendship.’ // ‘Are people becoming more and more prudish about sex? Is there more polarization? Are things different in other countries? Here, gay sex is forbidden because we believe it’s against nature.’ // ‘No towel, no swimwear – can't be bothered. If you’re as confident as I am, you always have to be able to improvise. You always have to be ready to land a punch and take a hit. I’m with the bruzz, hunting for the huzz.’ // ‘That it’s not just something mysterious. Dialogue sex. Ruleless sex. Crazy sex. Wild sex.’ // ‘I want to find love without having to make love.’
The performance is most impressive when it prioritizes imagination and embraces joy, fun, and fantasy.
Together with eleven young people, you experience a day and a night on the beach. The murmur of the waves forms the soundtrack to their thoughts on sexuality – so many desires, questions, beliefs, doubts, fantasies. Their inner, personal reflections on intimacy and eroticism become as visible as their hot skin.
‘Until my unattainable, huge, octopoid desire disappears into the depths of the dark ocean, looking for its next victim.’
The text of the beach was created over a period of five months by ten young people from Antwerp on the basis of writing sessions, improvisations, conversations and interviews. On stage, this text is embodied by eleven other young performers.
the beach is the first collaboration between hetpaleis and Sarah Vanhee, an transdisciplinary artist whose work has been shown in Belgium and abroad for more than twenty years.
want to know more about the beach?
- Read more about: Workshops at The Beach: not just for fun, but liberating (in Dutch)
- Ambassador Sabur spoke with Sarah Vanhee
- Behind the scenes of the rehearsals.
- The young people from the script lab, who wrote the text, came to watch a run-through.
- 100% cultuur dropped by (in Dutch)
- Listen to the report by Klara (in Dutch)
- Read the reviews by pzazz and Etcetera (in Dutch)
