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Confabulations

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  • 24.08 > 28.08.2026

In search of the ulti­ma­te proof that rea­li­ty is just an illu­si­on, Diederik Peeters dives deep into the archi­ves of psy­chi­a­try and neu­ro­lo­gy. He gui­des us along the thin line bet­ween rea­son and deli­ri­um, rea­li­ty and ima­gi­na­ti­on, illu­si­on and per­cep­ti­on. What rea­li­ty do we tru­ly sha­re — and who deci­des which rea­li­ties are ​“patho­lo­gi­cal”? Confabulations invi­tes us to revi­sit our noti­ons of men­tal health and to ques­ti­on the very idea of a fixed, objec­ti­ve rea­li­ty. On sta­ge with Peeters: Marcos Simões, Grégoire Blanc, and Ode Windels. Christoph Hefti and Sofie Durnez desig­ned color­ful fabrics, Alice Spenle con­ju­res sonic ghosts, and Henri-Emmanuel Doublier brings them into light.

A pro­ject by: Diederik Peeters

In clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with: Alice Spenle (sound design)⎮Anna Czapski (dramaturgy)⎮Basile Lemasson (administration)⎮Christoph Hefti (tex­ti­le design)⎮Elie Agniel (administration)⎮Emilie Legrand (administration)⎮Emmanuelle Nizou (dramaturgy)⎮Farah Nehme (cos­tu­me & pro­duc­ti­on assistance)⎮Sofie Durnez (tex­ti­le design & costumes)⎮Grégoire Blanc (per­for­man­ce & addi­ti­o­nal music composition)⎮Henri-Emmanuel Doublier (light and set design)⎮Jérôme Dupraz (tech­ni­cal inventions)⎮Lieven Dousselaere (music com­po­si­ti­on ​‘Cotard Song’ & ​‘Normality Song’)⎮Marcos Simões (performance)⎮Marion Le Guerroué (artis­tic col­la­bo­ra­ti­on & pro­duc­ti­on management)⎮Ode Windels (pro­duc­ti­on mana­ge­ment & performance)⎮Sara Manente (out­si­de eye)⎮Ulysse Potet (artis­tic assis­tan­ce & pho­to­grap­hy) Voices Boris Belay, Caroline Daish, Catherine Hershey, Michel Sallustio, Tilly De Rechter $

Produced by: SPIN
An asso­ci­a­ted pro­duc­ti­on by: L’amicale

Coproduction: BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) ⎮ C‑TAKT, Pelt (BE) ⎮ Festival NEXT (FR/BE) ⎮ Le Quartz – Scène nati­o­na­le de Brest (FR) ⎮ Perpodium (BE) ⎮ Playground (STUK & M, Leuven, BE) ⎮ Residenz Schauspiel, Leipzig (DE) ⎮ 3 bis f, Centre d’arts con­tem­po­rains d’in­té­rêt nati­o­nal, Aix-en-Provence (FR)

With the sup­port of the Hermes Corporate Foundation and the tax shel­ter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest Supported by the Flemish Community