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Lieselot Siddiki

SCHWEINEREI
VIERNULVIER & LOUD muziektheater

What happens when a civilisation can no longer digest its own history?

It must be born. Like a spirit emerging from the cunt.

In 'SCHWEINEREI', two figures lock themselves away in a bunker. They are twins. They are lovers. They are puppets, performers, spirits of the theatre. Fallen angels. They are repulsive and seductive at the same time. The last descendants of a Europe that has reproduced itself for centuries until it became sick. Behind them lie Versailles, Marie-Antoinette, Mozart, the aristocracy, the theatre. Everything that was beautiful. They have turned it into a paradise. But paradise is rotten. They party while the world outside perishes. They play, eat, make music. Their bodies become entwined. Their embrace turns into a knot. They love each other so much that they suffocate one another.

Then their bodies begin to speak out. What was swallowed up (culture, beauty, violence, guilt, desire) comes pouring out. They break through an inner wall. Inside becomes outside. Their artificial bodies begin to leak incessantly.

'SCHWEINEREI' is a love letter to the theatre and a reckoning with its ghosts. A state of being. An exorcism.

THE WHOLE GLOBE FOR A REAL SORROW.* Theatre is dead. Long live theatre.

Together with Lucie Plasschaert and Lucas van der Vegt, who plays Mozart on the fortepiano, Lieselot Siddiki builds a bunker that is a palace, a doll’s house, a body and a ruin. A place where past and present can no longer be distinguished from one another.

BORED. FRIVOLOUS. EXCESSIVE. SICK. SO SO SICK.

*from 'Hamletmachine' by Heiner Müller

 

In English, with Dutch surtitles

 

↓ Trigger Warnings:
  • Nudity
  • Wealth
  • Vomiting
  • Strobe and flashing lights
  • Loud music
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"Siddiki en haar collectief slagen er op indrukwekkende wijze in om een esthetiek te creëren waarin kritiek, clichés en camp elkaar kruisen zonder in gemakzucht of karikatuur te vervallen."
Aïcha Mouhamou, Pzazz
"Siddiki bewijst met haar eigentijdse, barokke stijl dat ze gemaakt is voor de grote zaal."
uit het juryrapport van het TheaterFestival 2026

Credits

Direction and design: Lieselot Siddiki - Performers: Lucie Plasschaert, Lucas van der Vegt - Dramaturgy: Dries Douibi - Music: Oscar Claus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Indebted to: Barbi Marković, François Rabelais, Panamarenko, Sinéad O'Connor, Heiner Müller, Julia Kristeva, Chapman Brothers, Leonora Carrington and Adrienne Rich

Set design: Eva Demulder - Lighting design and engineering: Max Adams - Costumes: Aidan Abnet - Costumes assistant: Ines Naaraat - Props and wigs: Tibau Beirnaert - Pig construction: Karl Philips & Stijn Brunon - Set construction: sidequest - Production and technical coordination: Eva Bracke - FOH sound: Leander Couplez - Translation surtitles: Ellen De Bruyne

With thanks to: Thomas Hoste, Robin Devalckenaere, Joeri Happel, Lennert Boots, Toneelhuis set workshop

Production: LOUD muziektheater - Co-production: kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Ghent), Toneelhuis (Antwerp), KVS (Brussels), Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), detheatermaker (Antwerp), Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels), Perpodium

With the support of: the Belgian Federal Government’s tax shelter via uFund

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