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PEEKABOO

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Maxime Dreesen & De Studio
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PEEKABOO © Yanis Berrewaerts

What would your life look like if you could re-examine your sexuality in the public space?

PEEKABOO shapes a playful vision of the world as a sex playground. A utopia that imagines new ways of contact through cruising, ultimately getting lost in a web of experimental relationships and unexpected encounters. There is no revolution without a sexual revolution! Out of the bedroom, into the street!

The story of cruising (the search for fleeting sexual contacts in the open air) is a timeless tale about the control of bodies, space and time. Who is allowed to do what, where, when? Questions that drive the characters to experiment with themselves, each other and their surroundings to figure out their personal idea of pleasure.

In this interdisciplinary theater performance, theater maker Maxime Dreesen experiments with the relationship between the disciplines of drag, hypnosis, music, text and dance. A performance with an ASMR hypnotist as a guide through the story, campy musical songs and a trance ambient track as a natural sound carpet. On this journey you will meet numerous entities such as drag clown Couenne, mating bird Courtney, Oscar The Explorer and ghosts of the past and future. They drip and collide, seek and hide, sing and laugh in a scenography, by touche–touche, as alive and sexual as they are.

Maxime Dreesen

Maxime Dreesen (°1996) is a theater director and performer. Their work addresses themes such as sex-positivity, unlearning, gender spectrum and shame. Maxime continues their mission to educate the world to become sexually multilingual and examines charged themes with a humorous eye. After the protest performance Youth For Sex (2021) and solo performance Countersex Education (2022), PEEKABOO starts from a collective and social approach to (public) sexuality.

Wed 22 Jan 25     20u00
première
Thu 23 Jan 25     20u00
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Credits

directing & conception Maxime Dreesen of and with Drag Couenne/Adrien De Biasi, Courtney May Robertson & Birame. text Oscar Mathieu Le Bussy scenography & light touche–touche (Théo Demans) dramaturgy Hannah Brugge music Benne Dousselaere costumes Dragadina hypnose Julia E. Dyck graphic artwork Yanis Berrewaerts production management Marie Dejonghe production Tabooboo vzw coproduction De Nieuwe Vorst & De Studio with the support of de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21 & Plan Brabant

On tour

Thu 24 Oct 24     20u15
try-out
Verkadefabriek
's-Hertogenbosch (NL)
Wed 30 Oct 24     20u30
try-out
De Nieuwe Vorst
Tilburg (NL)
Wed 27 Nov 24     20u30
try-out
Parktheater
Eindhoven (NL)
Thu 19 Dec 24     20u00
try-out
Bloos
Breda (NL)
Fri 10 Jan 25     20u00
Nederlandse première
Schuur
Haarlem (NL)
Fri 14 Feb 25     20u00
Grand Theatre
Groningen (NL)
Mon 17 Feb 25     20u00
Pilar
Brussel
Fri 7 Mar 25     20u00
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL)
Mon 24 Mar 25     20u00
Festival Cement
's-Hertogenbosch (NL)
Tue 25 Mar 25     20u00
Festival Cement
's-Hertogenbosch (NL)