After the successful show 'You can tell me a secret' about the different sides of dementia, MATZER Theatre Productions now presents a new production: Broos. A musical and moving performance with Lottie Hellingman about how you can lose yourself in caring for someone else. The show, written and directed by Madeleine Matzer, will premiere at the Verkadefabriek in Bossche on Friday 31 March.
Suddenly, the world can be completely different.
If you blink and open your eyes again,
nothing is like it was. Never again.
Everything has a different colour, a different smell,
a different rhythm a different perspective.
Kyra is an adventurous woman and born for happiness. Together with her husband, she has a son and a daughter. Romy is a special girl. A girl who needs extra care. Then the balance turns out to be fragile.
What is it like when people always ask about the person you care for, but rarely about you? When you don't even really ask yourself that anymore. There's a little less of you left all the time. And what happens when you fall over? You can't. And so you carry on.
Broos is a musical and moving performance about how you can lose yourself in caring for someone else and is inspired by interviews with mothers of a care-intensive child. Broos shows the beautiful and the distressing sides of a care story.
Madeleine Matzer: "There are an awful lot of families dealing with an extra care task. In many cases, this is a hidden area for those around them. Colleagues, friends and even family often don't know how big the impact is and how far it reaches. Their story is one that is still too often not heard or seen, because the person who needs extra care is often the focal point."
The show is performed by actress Lottie Hellingman and enriched with live music composed by Helge Slikker and sung by Lottie herself. Broos is a production by the makers of Je kunt me gerust een geheim vertellen, the successful show about the beautiful sides of dementia that has already been played at many care institutions and municipalities.
BROOS
Text & directing: Madeleine Matzer, acting: Lottie Hellingman, composition: Helge Slikker, dramaturgy: Cecile Brommer, set design: Sanne Danz, costume design: IlseVermeulen, lighting design: Tim van 't Hof, technology: Casper Vriens, directorial assistance: Sybe Gratama, production: Lisa van der Lecq
After the performances on 30, 31 March and 1 April in Den Bosch, Broos can be seen in theatres in Amersfoort, Gouda, Oss, Utrecht, Veghel, Veldhoven, Waalwijk and Winschoten, among others. Broos will also be played privately at organisations and companies. The current play list, which will be completed in the coming weeks and months, can be found at www.matzer.org
Image: Inez van Vuren
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