BREAD Direction, concept and design of "BREAD". Opening Night: May 19, Utrecht (Festival aan de Werf)
"If I look around me, I frequently don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to relate to the chaos, the struggle for more, higher, faster. The constant flow of images, opinions and choices, make me restless. But even if I look inside myself, I experience a sense of unrest. The constant search for the best, for what really matters, the struggle for purity, the longing for love, makes me seldom feel silent in my head. On the other hand, if I stop searching, stop wanting. stop to have to, stop running, then there arises room to experience the beauty of life in all its simplicity." In the experiential theatre performance "Bread" (2007) the performers guide the spectators initially as a group and later on individually through various spaces. They do not play a role but they perform actions that form a ritual that prepares for eating bread together. The spectators are put on soft footware, a warm just-ironized shirt, are blindfolded and lead along to a place where right in front of their eyes a bread is freshly baked. The bread is eaten in silence.
Direction, concept – Roos van Geffen
Performers – Ellen van Boggelen-Heutink, Barbara Devens, Bas van Kempen, Julien Knops, Nathalie Smoor, Satya Roosens
Dramaturge- Frederieke Vermeulen, Floris van Delft Design- Roos van Geffen en Lotte de Vries
Assistent design- Sanna Martha Production - Guido Besselink Technician - Wim Timmermans
Scene- en flyerphotography - Anna van Kooij
Review Theatercentraal, May 24, 2007
(...)Theatre maker Roos van Geffen makes the audience loose all sense of time for one hour (...)
Review 8Weekly May 19, 2007
(...) Time comes to a standstill. A small miracle takes place. (...)
De Spits, May 24, 2007-12-09
(...) A truly heart-warming performance. (...)
