FAMILY
In 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.”
MAKERS
Milo Rau / NTGent
PRACTICAL INFO
✔ Dutch spoken
✔ English surtitles
✔ Length: 80 min
✔ Trigger warnings: suicide
SYNOPSIS
What reasons, what traumas underlie such a suicide? In ‘Familie’, the first part of Milo Rau's Trilogy of Private Life, 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 teenage daughters Leonce and Louisa – and their dogs.
‘Familie’ 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? Together they reconstruct the mysterious case of the family Demesteer, following the journey of their own family, questioning the construction of family as the cell of life and origin of our world today.
The most current version of the full promotext can be found on this page.
TOUR DATES
This performance doesn't have any new tour dates yet.
VIDEO
- Download the trailer of ‘Family’ here: https://vimeo.com/382425459
- De volledige captatie van de voorstelling is op aanvraag verkrijgbaar via benny.dhaeseleer@ntgent.be
PHOTOS
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PRESS QUOTES
✒ “"A seemingly normal evening ends in suicide; 'Family' is a breathtaking family drama"” - Trouw (NL) *****
✒ “Milo Rau's soulful hymn to life on the brink of death” - The Guardian (UK) *****
✒ “A drama created to avoid real drama's” - Focus Knack (BE)
BIOS
Milo Rau (Bern, 1977) proves in projects like The Congo Tribunal, La Reprise, Orestes in Mosul, The New Gospel or School of Resistance that theatre does not have to be detached from society but that it is a necessary contribution to politics, culture, and society – a place to tell true stories that shape our society.
Read Milo Rau's bio here.
Read An Millers bio here.
Read Filip Peeters' bio here.
Read Leonce Peeters' bio here.
Read Louisa Peeters' bio here.
CREDITS
View the most current version of the credits on this page.
CONTACT
❔ Are you interested in programming this performance? Please contact Sophie Vanden Broeck, sales manager at NTGent:
✉: sophie.vanden.broeck@ntgent.be
☎: +32 485 80 38 43
❔ If you didn't find the promotional material you were looking for on this page, please contact Benny D'haeseleer, communications officer at NTGent at benny.dhaeseleer@ntgent.be
❔ For the technical rider or other technical questions, please contact marijn.vlaeminck@ntgent.be