Projects
August Strindberg

De Vader

Co-production

Residencies

  • 03.11 > 14.11.2025

De Vader is the new pro­duc­ti­on by the artist duo Marieke&Sophia, based on the play of the same name by August Strindberg from 1887. In the ori­gi­nal sto­ry, a mar­ria­ge unra­vels when the wife makes her hus­band doubt his father­hood. Marieke and Sophia rework this out­da­ted, sexist domestic dra­ma into a con­fron­ting per­for­man­ce whe­re fic­ti­on and rea­li­ty col­li­de. They blend Strindberg’s text with influ­en­ces from fema­le body art of the 1960s – 70s and explo­re how patri­ar­chal ide­as con­ti­nue to per­sist today. De Vader beco­mes a phy­si­cal, idi­o­syn­cra­tic pro­duc­ti­on about cul­tu­ral iden­ti­ty, power, and gender.

con­cept Sophia Bauer en Marieke Schraepen met en door Marieke Schraepen, Sophia Bauer, Anna Franziska Jäger en Rodrigo Batista dra­ma­tur­gie Bauke Lievens eind­re­gie Geert Belpaeme kos­tuums Alexandra Panou sce­no­gra­fie Eva Demulder licht­ont­werp Jan Maertens geluids­ont­werp Jonas Baeke