Swomp

In Swomp, Katelijne Beukema investigates how we communicate about mourning. We now know that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 5 stages of mourning are outdated, but how does mourning work then? Too often it is still like this: hiding that sadness and quickly being 'the old one' again. It should especially not take up too much space in daily life.

For the first time, Katelijne started creating a performance from a very personal fact: missing her deceased father. From the need to remove the invisibility of grief and to emphasize once again that there is no step-by-step plan or end point, she gives an insight into how grief makes its way through her life and squeezes out through all the pores in her body at the most unwanted moments.

The search was: to convert the personal into a universal story. Her wish was: to make the audience feel something.

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"Beukema needs no makeup in her performance. The smile she puts on resembles dried paint—unvarnished, with every crack and groove left by a layer of pigment." Theaterkrant