4 Women Getting Sick

When a doctor's visit turns into an endless medical limbo, four figures end up in a space where the boundaries between operating table, body, and landscape blur. Here echoes of the past and future intertwine, and players seek a way out of the bizarre cycle of predation and pillage.  

Renée Goethijn's magical-realist universe explores the link between body and land through visual and physical theatrical language. How are they subjected to a long history of conquest, oppression, and exhaustion? Inspired by surrealism and sacred ecology, Renée seeks the liberating aspect hidden in the original connection between the female body and the Earth.   

In doing so, she employs scenography as a storytelling medium and co-actor. 4 Women Getting Sick unfolds as an enchanting, alienating theatrical experience that encourages us to reflect. Absurdity, humour, and existential questions come together and invite us to rediscover the world – and our roles in it. A wondrous ode to female territory.   

• Renée Goethijn (b. 1987, BE, she/her) attended the maker training at RITCS School of Arts in Brussels. There, she explored the boundaries between theatre and visual art. Following her gut, she creates visual, absurd performances, of which the scenography often forms the core. In this way she develops bizarre, parallel realities, in which she examines the principles and mechanisms that guide and determine our societal reality.