NOISE

Club Gewalt

Fri 2 Oct ’26 and Sat 3 Oct ’26

Listening to the holy tune of collapse.

musical theatre

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Fri 2 Oct ’26

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Sat 3 Oct ’26

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Fri 2 Oct ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

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Sat 3 Oct ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

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In this intensely immersive performance opera, born out of the urgency to learn how to navigate a world in collapse, Club Gewalt asks themselves the question: how can you readjust your senses under the constant static of information predicting the apocalypse? How do we give meaning to a future that doesn’t overflow with prosperity?

We live in a time of polycrisis. We are confronted with the renaissance of fascism, the arrival of the climate crisis, Western complicity in a genocide, vegetables and fruit full of PFAS, our own identities that turn out to be contaminated with (internalized) racism, sexism and homophobia.

Once, we were promised a future of stability and progress; now systems all around us and in ourselves are threatening to collapse. The human survival instinct (LION! DANGER! FIGHT OR FLIGHT! SURVIVE! CELEBRATE!) is failing massively when it comes to dealing with the complexity of today’s problems. Our amygdala’s are being immensely overstimulated and we are getting stuck in an anxiety limbo.

Can we learn to accept the collapsing of systems as a law of nature, without ceasing our protest against injustice? Can we heal ourselves by, instead of only naming the crises, feeling them deeply? Can we finally complete our stress cycles, so we can navigate a world on fire? Can we fall in love with being human all over again? And: is this the moment to find God? Cuz: never waste a good crisis.

Duration: 75 mins.

Credits

composition, text, performance Gerty Van de Perre, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Klein, Sanna Elon Vrij and Suzanne Kipping artistic direction Sanna Elon Vrij music direction Robbert Klein dramaturgy Amir Vahidi final direction Lisa Lucassen costume design Mayan Tuulia Frank (in collaboration with Carlotta Schumann, Hagen Keller) scenoraphy, lightdesign Wes Broersen sound design Joost Muller technical production Pablo Strörmann technique Neuköllner Oper (Berlin), Noor Thijssen, Sipke Woudstra (Netherlands) executive production Andrea van Bussel production assistant Zus Downes business lead Rick Mouwen artdirection campaign MaartjeMerel photography campaign Pim Top communication Marlies van der Neut, Pauline Ouwerkerk in co-production with Neuköllner Oper Berlin with support from Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Rotterdam

About Club Gewalt

Club Gewalt is a music-based performance collective from Rotterdam. Rooted in rage fueled by injustice and love for togetherness, they make, compose, produce and perform their own work: ranging from feminist punk-christmas musicals and introspective killjoy operas about institutional racism, to disruptive club nights in museums and political slutpop concerts. Always highly skilled, musical, playful and somehow awkward.

Club Gewalt is addicted to crowds and, on the eve of the apocalypse, they sing their lungs out in an attempt to unlock an alternative timeline.