Performance
PEEKABOO by Maxime Dreesen
Mon 17 Feb 2025Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
Timetable
19:45 / Doors
20:00 / Start
20:00 / PEEKABOO
Location
Pilar Box (Ground Floor)
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
There is no revolution, without a sexual revolution!
20:00 / PEEKABOO
How would your life look if you could rediscover your sexuality in public spaces?
PEEKABOO is a vision of a world transformed into a playground of sensuality. This universe imagines new ways of connecting through cruising: the pursuit of fleeting, sexual encounters in open, public spaces. Theatre maker Maxime Dreesen approaches this phenomenon as an exploration of experimental relationships and serendipitous encounters.
Music, hypnosis, drag, text, and dance intertwine in this performance. You’ll meet a host of characters such as shapeshifter Couenne, mating bird Courtney, superstar Birame, Oscar The Explorer, Julia the hypnotist in the sky, and Benne on the keys. They collide and melt, search and hide, sing and laugh within a scenography of touche-touche—as vibrant and sensual as the characters themselves. Each one is on a personal quest for pleasure.
Curiosity and excitement weave through this story, blending kinky comedy, campy musical numbers, and intimate ASMR in a dreamy, Teletubby-esque landscape.
There’s no revolution without a sexual revolution!
Special thanks to: Concept and Direction: Maxime Dreesen / Created and Performed by: Drag Couenne/Addi De Biasi, Courtney May Robertson, Birame, Benne Dousselaere & Maxime Dreesen / Text: Oscar Mathieu Le Bussy / Music: Benne Dousselaere / Hypnosis: Julia E. Dyck / Dramaturgy: Hannah Brugge / Scenography and Lighting: touche–touche (Théo Demans) / Costume Design: Maximilian Rittler / Graphic Design: Yanis Berrewaerts / Videography: Charles Dhondt / Technical Support: Mathijs Geraerts / Production Management: Marie Dejonghe / Production: Tabooboo vzw / Co-production: De Nieuwe Vorst & De Studio / Supported by: The Flemish Government, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21 & PLAN Brabant / Special Thanks to: Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Julie Cafmeyer, Verkadefabriek, Het Zuidelijk Toneel & Studio Carwash
Maxime Dreesen
Maxime Dreesen (b. 1996) graduated as a director from the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019. In their work, they aim for honesty and authenticity, which can lead to realism and concreteness but also to absurdism and the grotesque. With Hartstuk in 2018, they created the first part of a queer-coming-of-age trilogy that seeks the essence of the theatrical medium: creating magic only with words, voices and bodies in a bare space. Failure of Sex and Break Free followed in 2019. Since 2020 Maxime is artist in residence at De Studio in Antwerp, they made the protest performance Youth For Sex (2021), hosted Salon Sex Sessions and created a soloperformance Countersex Education (2022).
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
Timetable
19:45 / Doors
20:00 / Start
20:00 / PEEKABOO
Location
Pilar Box (Ground Floor)
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
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