Thu 02.10.25 —
Sat 11.10.25
Trouble Score
Luanda Casella, Pablo Casella & ntgent
EN
NL
Family
Family
Family
04.11.25 — 05.11.25In 2007 in Calais, a whole family hanged themselves: the parents and their two children. Never a motive was found, the suicide note stated: "We messed up, sorry."
What reasons, what traumas underlie such a suicide? In Family, we see a real family on stage: actors An Miller and Filip Peeters do not only act together as a couple, but for the first time in their career they are on stage with their two daughters Leonce and Louisa – and their dogs.
Family is an experiment, an ethnological study of today’s private life, an exhibition of the everyday: on stage we see the house of the family Demeester – or is it the house of the family Peeters/Miller? 'A dark, secular mass,' according to The Guardian. 'At once a celebration of all life has to offer in its smallest, most trivial moments, and a painful recognition that sometimes it can be too much.'
The premiere of Family took place in 2020 amid great interest from the international press. After an impressive tour lasting no less than five years, the successful production is coming home to Ghent for a final run.
Practical info
Duration
1h20
Tickets
15 - 28 euros
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Subtitles
English
Good to know
The performance is not suitable for young people under the age of 16 and contains scenes that may be offensive. Do you have questions about suicide and would you like to talk about it? Contact Zelfmoord 1813 in Belgium free of charge
They saw the play and said:
A dark, secular mass, at once a celebration of all life has to offer in its smallest, most trivial moments, and a painful recognition that sometimes it can be too much
, The Guardian (UK), Read the articleA drama made to avoid real dramas
Focus Knack (BE)