Biography
Femke Van der Steen is an actress, writer and theatre maker. She graduated from LUCA Drama in Leuven in 2022. Her master’s thesis MATER was shown at Theater Aan Zee and won the 2023 Translation Prize. She believes in the fictional story as an activist tool and writes about the imbalance between masculinity and femininity. Tristan Feyten is a theatre maker and actor and graduated from LUCA Drama in 2021. Together they researched, wrote the text and directed this performance.
In residentie There never was a box
01.09.2023 – 03.09.2023
There Never Was a Box is an eco-feminist, non-dualistic performance about the costs and meanings of living up to the high standards of masculinity and patriarchy. It is a king who is growing old and is told by the gods that he will soon die. It is a deal made by the gods, who promise him that if he sacrifices one of his sons every few years, he will be allowed to live. It is a choice that is quickly made and a dismayed prince who desperately pleads for the value of his existence. It is a jester who whistles, asks questions and speaks of the future.
It is a play in which the players and the audience do not always see what is fiction and what is real. It is an empire on the verge of collapse and a court desperately trying to hold it together, but what if some things are better off breaking, dying, cracking; what if it is time, long ago?