Beginnings maart 2026: Double bill

MARIA AURELIA SYLVIA MISERI MISERI MISERICORDIA - Elvis de Launay / Frascati Producties 

How sacred is the bond between mother and daughter?

A daughter 
writes letters 
to her  
dearest darling beautiful saintly mother  
letters in which everything is fine and the sun is shining  
even when it is stormy  
 
In the dialogue MARIA AURELIA SYLVIA MISERI MISERI MISERICORDIA, Elvis de Launay examines the destructive desire to be a good girl, based on letters between poet Sylvia Plath and her mother Aurelia Plath. 

About Elvis de Launay

Theatre maker, actor and writer Elvis de Launay graduated from Arnhem Theatre School in 2024 with her performance Cowboy och Meisje. She has performed in Maas speelt Maas, Wunderbaum speelt live (online gaat het mis) and Mama Dada, for which she received a Theo d'Or nomination. In 2025, she created her first full-length performance, Zee-Tuin-Jarman, at Werkplaats Walhalla. 

Her writing is personal, exploratory, poetic and always nourished by a wide range of sources. Her sober stagings focus all attention on the narrative and the language, creating space for the viewer's imagination. 

Body in a Bag - Daan Buringa / Frascati Producties

Who is permitted to use which narrative?

In Body in a Bag, Daan Buringa explores representation, appropriation, and moral conviction. When he is no longer the only wheelchair user in the room, his position shifts, raising questions about the relationship between visibility, recognition, and power.

Through text, music and visual elements, he asks the questions: who is allowed to speak on behalf of whom? When does representation have an emancipatory effect and when does it become a means of power? And finally, when does a reflection on inclusion and visibility turn into judgement or control?

About Daan Buringa

Daan Buringa is a theatre maker and actor. He graduated from the ATKA at the Academy of Theatre and Dance (2025). Daan is a wheelchair user. In his work, Daan uses his own body and experience as research material. He creates performances in which form and content exert pressure on each other, and in which humour, control and vulnerability constantly clash. 
 
In previous solo performances and theatre productions, Daan explored themes such as dependence, dignity, loneliness and the urge to do everything yourself. His work is characterised by self-criticism and humour, and by constantly questioning his own position. For his performances WAT B€N IK WAARD? (What am I worth?) and Daan Buringa bedankt (Thank you, Daan Buringa), he received the “Top Naeff” Prize in the autumn of 2025.