4.48 Sara De Bosschere / De Roovers

On the one hand, 4.48  is a stunning theatre script but on the other, it is also an authentic, precise, and moving attempt to describe certain processes that play out in the generally invisible zone between consciousness and subconsciousness, loneliness and dialogue, love and aggression, swimming and drowning.

4.48  is entirely mistaken to read the text as a letter of farewell, says De Bosschere. "The fact that the writer committed suicide after writing it threw a shadow over how it has been read. I feel the need to resist this reading strongly. I recently found an interview with her brother that had a profound impact on me. He confirms the need I feel to refute that fatalistic reading. Nobody is capable of knowing what feeling leads to which word and which word to what action.”

ABOUT THE MAKERS

Marc Vanrunxt and Sara De Bosschere got to know each other in the bar of the Monty theatre in Antwerp. They started watching each other’s work there and became interested and intrigued by what the other was doing. This led to the short, intense collaboration Lust for Life  in 2013, a declaration of love in text, dance and music. Sara De Bosschere approached Vanrunxt for artistic and movement advice on the production, dramatized by Koen Tachelet. As always in his engagements with other creators, Vanrunxt wishes to penetrate deep into this work, with his vision of time and duration, the use of space and presence.