Het Zuidelijk Toneel, House Crying Yellow Tears & De Singel
It feels like you're sitting in a television studio, applauding as part of the audience during the recording of a talk show. This is the physical arena that guides our gaze, but perhaps we should focus our attention elsewhere. On a valuable detail, perhaps, that is easy to overlook? Suze Milius' performance TALK SHOW is an ode to the details in our lives. Milius offers a different perspective on the value of the banalities in our lives, inviting us to bid them a dignified farewell.
Suze Milius once studied anthropology, but decided to continue her research into human behavior within a theatrical context. Her research questions in this performance are: how do we assign value to the things in our lives? What do we consider important or unimportant, and why?
She links these questions to her fascination with transience, the melancholy that lies in the passing of time. TALK SHOW is many things, including an attempt to assign value to everything that is otherwise lost with the passing of time. With the love of absurd humor and subtle aesthetics that is so characteristic of Suze Milius.
With TALK SHOW, Milius creates a theater performance like a musical composition, with seemingly unrelated fragments that challenge the audience to make associations and connections.
Flemish newspaper De Morgen: “Suze Milius is one of those directors who often effortlessly penetrates our feelings and thoughts.”
Director and writer Suze Milius creates colorful, vivid worlds that are both alienating and poetic and humorous. With her idiosyncratic visual and physical language, she emphasizes interpersonal behavior in its disarming awkwardness. Characteristic of her work is the way in which the everyday is placed in a surrealistic setting, revealing details that we often overlook in our daily routine.
Text contributions: Magne van den Berg
Cast: Janneke Remmers, Nora Ramakers, Stefan Jakiela, Lisa Verbelen, Kasper Vandenberghe
Music: Hendrik Lasure
Dramaturgy: Daan Milius
Artistic advice: Piet Menu
Scenography: Janne Sterke
Costume design: Johanna Trudzinski
Lighting design: Stan Bannier
