Binta’s inner room9+
About love, lamentation and lollies
Binta is a rebellious girl. She lives in a children’s home and waits with her friend Youri for a visit from her mother. Binta has a secret inner room where stories, aromas and objects are stowed away in drawers. It’s visiting hour, so you are welcome to step into her world.
Theatre-maker and performer Aminata Demba drew inspiration from conversations with care experts as well as with children and adults who have experienced temporarily or permanently separation from their parents. Based on this material, Hanneke Paauwe wrote a highly imaginative story packed with role swaps, humour and relativization. Gruesome, comforting and exciting. Laika has turned Binta’s inner room into an intimate sensory experience in an unusual space: a closed construction with nooks and drawers both on the inside and the outside, containing objects and aromas from the stories of Binta and other children (designed by Studio Kuurjeus). Inside the installation, Aminata and musician Sam Gysel take you on a musical journey that explores absence and resilience.
Binta’s inner room was selected for Het Theaterfestival 2021.
CONCEPT AND CAST Aminata Demba CONCEPT AND SCRIPT Hanneke Paauwe DIRECTED BY Jo Roets MUSIC Sam Gysel SET Studio Kuurjeus COSTUMES Maartje Van Bourgognie LIGHTING Rob Van Ertvelde DRAMATURGY Mieke Versyp SENSORY ADVICE Peter De Bie CHOREOGRAPHY Iris Bouche TECHNICAL REALISATION Rik Van Gysegem, Anton Van Haver PRODUCTION Pieter Smet ENGLISH TRANSLATION Nadine Malfait
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September 2020
Antwerpen
Su20/0914:00, 17:00
Mo21/0910:00, 13:30
Tu22/0910:00, 13:30
Tervuren
De Warandepoort
Mo28/0910:30, 13:30
Tu29/0910:30, 13:30
October 2020
Zaventem
Cultuurcentrum De Factorij
Polyvalente zaal
Polyvalente zaal
Mo12/1013:30
Zaventem
Cultuurcentrum De Factorij
Theaterzaal
Theaterzaal
Tu13/1010:00, 13:30
Zaventem
Cultuurcentrum De Factorij
Polyvalente zaal
Polyvalente zaal
We14/1010:00
June 2021
September 2021
Het Theaterfestival
De Studio
De Studio
Sa04/0920:00
Su05/0915:00
Amsterdam
De Krakeling (0)20/625.22.03
Su12/0914:30
October 2021
Antwerpen
Mo25/1013:30
Tu26/1010:00, 13:30
Th28/1010:00
Fr29/1013:30, 20:00
Sa30/1020:00
November 2021
Oudenaarde
Tu16/1114:00
We17/1110:00
Th18/1110:00, 14:00
Duffel
GC Cinema Plaza
Cinema Plaza
Cinema Plaza
Mo29/1110:00, 13:30
Tu30/1110:00, 13:30
December 2021
Duffel
GC Cinema Plaza
Cinema Plaza
Cinema Plaza
We01/1210:00
Brussel
N22 Brusselse Gemeenschapscentra
Pilar Huis voor kunst en wetenschap VUB
Pilar Huis voor kunst en wetenschap VUB
Th02/1210:30, 13:30
Fr03/1210:30
January 2024
Antwerpen
Sa06/0115:00
Su07/0115:00
Mo08/0110:00, 13:30
Tu09/0110:00, 13:30
Brussel
N22 Brusselse Gemeenschapscentra
Het Huis van Culturen en Sociale Samenhang van Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
Het Huis van Culturen en Sociale Samenhang van Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
Th25/0110:00, 13:30
Fr26/0110:00, 13:30
February 2024
Press
06/09/2021
"Hanneke Paauwe has written an accessible script on a serious subject. It is playful and light-hearted, full of humour and gentle sarcasm and interspersed with fun facts, warmth and understanding. Here, too, delicious smells and the like offer comfort and pleasure. Jo Roets is the director of Laika, ‘the theatre of the senses’. In his balanced production, hilarity alternates with subdued moments, waterfalls of words with silences, anger with calm. The use made of the cupboards and drawers (in a scenography by Studio Kuurjeus) is ingenious."
23/06/2021
"Demba drew on her own experience and network to create a universal show that gives real insight into the thoughts and actions of a child in a children’s home. The subject may not be light-hearted, but Demba’s energetic performance, the powerful script and the surprise use made of little doors and gaps in the set result in a fresh and spirited story."
Jury’s report Het TheaterFestival 2021
21/09/2020
"Hanneke Paauwe’s accomplished script, Aminata Demba’s captivating delivery, Sam Gysel’s live music, the cupboards and drawers that introduce new stories: this superb show about love and suffering, sorrow and resilience is spot on!"
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