STREET

 On the stage: four people whose paths crossed accidentally on the playing field of life. We call them a Perpetrator, a Victim, a Witness, or an Expert. But they no longer want to perform a role. They could choose their position like they always have; but the according rules keep them imprisoned in somebody else’s game. 

And they no longer care for that. 

They want to enter the stage with an open mind. To that end, all need to overcome something. And there’s a lot to loose once you start bending the rules: sympathy, respect, friendship, love, a home, a future, a life. Besides that, nobody knows what it means to win; only that you can’t do it on your own. But how do you play together when you’ve been given different sets of rules? What strategy do you use? And at what price?

Pleun van Vliet and Maike Koolhuis developed the interactive performance “STREET” for GGZ Drenthe in collaboration with experience experts Consuelo Silvia, Jorge Chito, and Yousef. “STREET” will premiere at the forensic symposium “Play, Pathology, and Crime” on October 7 & 8 2021.