Het Zuidelijk Toneel & Suze Milius
Recognition - everyone craves it. To be seen, to be appreciated, to matter. But what if that affirmation fails to materialize? If your words fall on deaf ears, your talent goes unnoticed, your place is constantly taken by someone else? Jealousy rears its head, vanity gnaws at you, insecurity eats away at you.
For artists, recognition is their bread and butter, and so Suze Milius zooms in on their biotope in the musical performance This will not end well. We observe a group of artists being interviewed during their collaboration. But it soon becomes clear that nothing is what it seems: one artist speaks the words of another. And the underlying tensions are painfully exposed in the intonation.
Welcome to the alienating mirror world of Suze Milius, where music by Annelinde Bruijs feeds the undercurrent and the boundary between play and reality becomes increasingly blurred.
This performance will have a short tour in 2025-2026 and will return in the 2026-2027 season.
Dutch spoken. No English surtitles.
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 how she places the everyday in a surreal setting, revealing details that we often overlook in our daily routine.
Composition: Annelinde Bruijs
Design & Costume Design: Johanna Trudzinski
Dramaturgical Advice: Joachim Robbrecht
Photography: Sofie Knijff
