THE SIREN OF IRENE, theatre on location.
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For the Over het IJ Theater festival, I wrote and directed a monologue that was performed in a sea container. The performance was inspired by something David Foster Wallace said in an interview once:
“(...) since to be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
The Siren of Irene is about people on a short leish by their own consciousness.
A music spectacle about the maddening monologue in your own head. But above all, a play about a large group of young people who have been adhered to irony.
I was blessed with actress
Maya Mertens who performed and composed music for the Siren of Irene. Listen to the soundtrack Aldi Lidl Tranen on spotify.
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The Siren of Irene toured throughout the country and was nominated for the incentive prize De Troffel at theatre festival Cement. The jury on The Siren of Irene: “we were charmed by the textual sensitivity, visual richness and self-relativity of this writer/director. She brings the search for the relationship between man and our own brain with humour in a poetic, ironic and interesting way. Her starting point certainly has great urgency in these liquid times.”