



What begins as a hallucinatory seminar on overcoming an existential crisis ends in a liberating immersion in noise.
We live in a time of crisis. We are confronted with rising fascism, the ever-worsening climate crisis, Western complicity in genocide, fruit and vegetables contaminated with PFAS, and our own identities that turn out to be filled with (internalised) sexism, racism, and homophobia. Where a future of stability and progress was once promised, all the systems around us — and within us — are threatening to collapse.
In this immersive performance-opera, Club Gewalt asks itself: how can we re-tune our senses amid the constant noise of information predicting the apocalypse? How do we create meaning for a future that is no longer overflowing with prosperity?
Can we heal ourselves not by only naming the crises, but by truly feeling them?
Credits
Composition, text, performance Gerty Van de Perre, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Klein, Sanna Elon Vrij and Suzanne Kipping Artistic direction Sanna Elon Vrij Music direction Robbert Klein Dramaturgy Amir Vahidi Final direction Lisa Lucassen Costume design Mayan Tuulia Frank (in collaboration with Carlotta Schumann, Hagen Keller) Scenoraphy, lightdesign Wes Broersen Sound design Joost Muller Technical Production Pablo Strörmann Technique Neuköllner Oper (Berlin), Noor Thijssen, Sipke Woudstra (Netherlands) Executive production Andrea van Bussel Production assistant Zus Downes Business lead Rick Mouwen Artdirection campaign MaartjeMerel Photography campaign Pim Top Communication Marlies van der Neut, Pauline Ouwerkerk
In co-production with Neuköllner Oper Berlin With support from Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Rotterdam











