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She was born for happiness

Veronika Abdul-Visocka / Frascati Producties
Tue 15 Sep - Sat 19 Sep
An attempt to stay with pain, rather than looking away.
Tue 15 Sep
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Sat 19 Sep

She was born for happiness explores the relationship between self-harm and the promise of happiness. This performance approaches self-harm as a response to structural violence rather than an individual problem, by critically addressing environments that demand constant positivity, success, and happiness. Places where pain, doubt, or the inability to belong, are made invisible.

Through theatre and new media, the work is recreating living spaces in which acts of self-harm have taken place. A porcelain collection, a tablecloth and a vase of flowers suddenly become silent witnesses. Writer and theatre director Veronika Abdul-Visocka explores the cracks in environments that are designed for “the good life”.

While the work is rooted in the authors' personal experiences, it communicates with several literary works, films and visual arts pieces. By doing so, the makers strive to create a space to speak about experiences of self-harm without falling into violent self-exposure, or romanticization of pain.

She was born for happiness is an attempt to stay with pain, rather than looking away.

  • Language: English
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concept, text, direction Veronika Abdul-Visocka ligths, music, dramaturgy Patsy Lassbo performance Florence Minder video Kristian Møller-Munar dramaturgy Marta Keil editorial advice Nicolas Lange handcrafted dress Džeina Lubāne 3D printing Ed Douwes co-produced by Grand Theatre Groningen supported by the residence programme at PACT Zollverein, co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia with thanks to Swedish Arts Grants

 

   

About Veronika Abdul-Visocka

Veronika Abdul-Visocka (Latvia, 1997) is a theatre maker, writer and performer. In 2025 she graduated from the master’s programme at DAS Theatre. Her work emerges from a power-critical, hybrid perspective. Shaped by the multiple languages, religions and political systems she was raised within, Veronika explores fluidity, multiversality and the capacity for transformation. 

She weaves personal narratives and fiction with ideas from philosophy, literature, and poetry in her work. From this layered approach, she creates performances in which different realities coexist and question one another. She collaborates with artists from various disciplines, such as composers and videoartists, bringing together diverse voices, forms, and media on stage.

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