Swomp

Katelijne Beukema explores how we communicate about grief. How does it usually go? We tuck the sadness away and try to get ‘back to normal’ as quickly as possible. Grief isn’t supposed to take up too much space in daily life. By now, we know the five stages of grief by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross are outdated — but then how do we grieve?

For the first time, Katelijne began creating a performance from something deeply personal: the loss of her father. In this humorous mime performance, she offers a glimpse into how grief winds its way through her life, bursting out through every pore at the most inconvenient moments. With this work, she hopes to make grief less invisible — and to remind us that there is no step-by-step plan, no finish line. The challenge was to turn something personal into a universal story. Her wish: to make the audience feel something.

Accessibility info

The West End theatre has one wheelchair-accessible seat, which can be reserved by emailing kaartverkoop@oerol.nl.