Swomp

Name: Swomp - Katelijne Beukema
Start: 2026-01-16T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Katelijne Beukema

Wed 14 Jan ’26 - Fri 16 Jan ’26

"A touching and funny mime interpretation of mourning" Theaterkrant, Critic’s choice

Wed 14 Jan ’26

Fri 16 Jan ’26

Wed 14 Jan ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 3

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Thu 15 Jan ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 3

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Fri 16 Jan ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 3

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Swomp is a swamp. It is full of drops that have made buckets overflow, deep valleys and sharp edges. It is deafeningly quiet, because language has been lost. But if you sink deep enough, you can also laugh. Because there is a clown.

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 We now know that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 5 stages of mourning are outdated, but how does mourning work then?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.

In de pers

"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

Wed. 14 jan. part of the We Are Public- programme

Credits

concept and performance Katelijne Beukema direction Silke van Kamp costume Roos Herings music and advice Sebastiaan Bax technique Nick Herman a big thanks to Hanneke Voors, Eileen Graham, Patsy Kroonenberg, Ruta van Hoof, Joy Hansson, Joep Hendrikx, Studio Figur and Zaal 3 this performance was made possible with a contribution from the Amarte Fonds

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About Katelijne Beukema

Katelijne Beukema is an actress and theatre maker. She graduated in 2018 from the Acting program at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Since then, she has worked as an actress with various companies and makers across the Netherlands. Together with Eileen Graham, she founded her own company, coupdeboule, through which they explore large, intangible concepts in a philosophical and humorous way.

Her work is physical and intuitive. Rather than presenting a clear-cut message, she invites the audience to search for meaning, recreating the performance anew each night with them.