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4 Women Getting Sick
Renée Goethijn
When a doctor’s visit turns into an endless medical limbo, four figures end up in a space where the boundaries between operating table, body, and landscape blur. Here echoes of the past and future intertwine, and players seek a way out of the bizarre cycle of predation and pillage.
Renée Goethijn’s magical-realist universe explores the link between body and land through visual and physical theatrical language. How are they subjected to a long history of conquest, oppression, and exhaustion? Inspired by surrealism and sacred ecology, Renée seeks the liberating aspect hidden in the original connection between the female body and the Earth.
In doing so, she employs scenography as a storytelling medium and co-actor. 4 Women Getting Sick unfolds as an enchanting, alienating theatrical experience that encourages us to reflect. Absurdity, humour, and existential questions come together and invite us to rediscover the world – and our roles in it. A wondrous ode to female territory.
“Het lichaam van de vrouw als terra incognita, het is een rake metafoor voor de genderbias in de medische wetenschap.”
“Want de verwarring én ontwarring van lichaam en landschap, daarin schuilt de kracht van ‘4 Women Getting Sick’.”
Renée Goethijn (1987, BE, she/her) attended the maker training at RITCS School of Arts in Brussels. There, she explored the boundaries between theatre and visual art. Following her gut, she creates visual, absurd performances, of which the scenography often forms the core. In this way she develops bizarre, parallel realities, in which she examines the principles and mechanisms that guide and determine our societal reality.
In 2013, she was a guest performer and creator with Bookers & Hookers. At KWP Pianofabriek and Monty, she co-directed No Use For Binoculars (2015) and Totally (2017) together with Dries Gijsels.
Renée is also active within Kloppend Hert, where she is one of the core mentors of the artistic platform Jong Gewei. In addition, she works as a lecturer and head of department in the drama program at RITCS.
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concept & direction Renée Goethijn scenography & costume Katrien Baetslé acting & creation Audrey Apers, Gina Beuk, Lotte Diependaele, Natacha Nicora dramaturgy Esther Severi lighting design & technology Kurt Lefevre sound design Pablo Lilienfeld internship scenography/light/technology Margaux Dusong production Kunstenwerkplaats KWP co-production Kaaitheater, Viernulvier, Theater Antigone, C-takt/Beyond the black box with support of de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie en Monty. with many thanks to Bart Vanreusel en Erika Vande Reyde