
4 Women Getting Sick
Renée Goethijn
Description
When a doctor’s visit turns into an endless medical limbo, four figures end up in a space where the boundaries are blurred between operating table, body, and landscape. Echoes of past and future intertwine. The players seek a way out of a bizarre cycle of predation and exploitation.
4 Women Getting Sick presents a magical-realist universe that, through a visual and physical theatrical language, explores the link between body and land. We examine how both have been subjected to a long history of conquest, oppression, and exhaustion. Inspired by surrealism and sacred ecology, Renée searches for the liberating aspect hidden in the primal connection between the female body and the earth.
4 Women Getting Sick is a performance where scenography is used as both a storytelling medium and a co-actor. It is an enchanting and unsettling theatrical experience that provokes reflection, where absurdity, humor, and existential questions come together to invite us to rediscover the world and our role in it. An absurd ode to female territory.
4WGS will premiere in November 2025 at Kaaitheater/Gc De Kriekelaar. Additional planned venues include Viernulvier, Theater Antigone, Monty, De Grote Post, and CCHA Hasselt.