No one wants to fall. Falling makes you vulnerable. In today’s society we want progress; onward and upward, faster, more. But surely falling is part of life? Water evaporates, rises and comes back down as rain; people live and learn; they get knocked down and they get back up again. What would be left of our creativity if no one ever dared to leap into the dark? Fall is a musical ode to falling, in which we look our fears in the eye. Composer Yannis Kyriakides, with whom we worked before, makes us explore the extremes; scaling the highest heights and dropping to the deepest lows.

For sixteen years, Schweigman& has struck a universal, human chord with audiences on location and in theatres. Boukje Schweigman’s company is known for its unique theatrical idiom, drawing the audience into a wordless universe and placing the senses on alert. While everyone experiences this in their own way, as one journalist commented: even the most insensitive are moved. Fall brings the company’s poetical genre to the big stage.

Credits
Director: Boukje Schweigman
Music: Yannis Kyriakides
Set and lighting design: Theun Mosk
Performers: Hidde Aans-Verkade, Erwin Dörr, Koen van der Heijden, Francesca Lazzeri, Goda Zukauskaite
Musical lead: Calefax
Assistant director: Anemone Oostvriesland
Costumes: Esmee Thomassen