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In an intensely immersive performance opera, born out of the urgency to learn how to navigate a world in collapse, the Rotterdam-based performance collective Club Gewalt asks: how can you readjust your senses under the constant static of information predicting the apocalypse? How do we give meaning to a future that doesn\u2019t overflow with prosperity? Can we fall in love with being human all over again? And: is this the moment to find God? Cuz: never waste a good crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine fluorescent lighting. Imagine a PowerPoint presentation. Imagine a young professional mom.<\/em> Imagine a semi-intellectual seminar on recovering after a postnatal depression. Imagine an analog synthesizer on wheels. Imagine a musical song about your baby falling off the couch. Imagine the world collapsing. Imagine far too many words. Imagine far too much emotion. Imagine far too little hope. Imagine hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What starts as a hallucinatory seminar on how to overcome an existential crisis, ends in a cathartic submersion in noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this intensely immersive performance opera, born out of the urgency to learn how to navigate a world in collapse, Club Gewalt asks themselves the question: how can you readjust your senses under the constant static of information predicting the apocalypse? How do we give meaning to a future that doesn\u2019t overflow with prosperity? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in a time of polycrisis. We are confronted with the renaissance of fascism, the arrival of the climate crisis, Western complicity in a genocide, vegetables and fruit full of PFAS, our own identities that turn out to be contaminated with (internalized) racism, sexism and homophobia. Once, we were promised a future of stability and progress; now systems all around us and in ourselves are threatening to collapse. The human survival instinct (LION! DANGER! FIGHT OR FLIGHT! SURVIVE! CELEBRATE!) is failing massively when it comes to dealing with the complexity of today\u2019s problems. Our amygdala\u2019s* are being immensely overstimulated and we are getting stuck in an anxiety limbo. Can we learn to accept the collapsing of systems as a law of nature, without ceasing our protest against injustice? Can we heal ourselves by, instead of only naming the crises, feeling them deeply? Can we finally complete our stress cycles, so we can navigate a world on fire? Can we fall in love with being human all over again? And: is this the moment to find God? Cuz: never waste a good crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*The <\/em>amygdala<\/em><\/strong>(pl.: amygdalae or amygdalas; <\/em>Greek<\/em><\/a>, \u1f00\u03bc\u03c5\u03b3\u03b4\u03ac\u03bb\u03b7 = amygdal\u0113) is a paired <\/em>nuclear<\/em><\/a>complex present in the <\/em>cerebral hemispheres<\/em><\/a>of <\/em>vertebrates<\/em><\/a>. It has a primary role in the processing of <\/em>memory<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>decision-making<\/em><\/a>, and <\/em>emotional responses<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(including fear, anxiety, and aggression). (source: wikipedia) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOISE is an international music theatre production by Club Gewalt, which is made in collaboration with Neuk\u00f6llner Oper Berlin. The international premiere takes place on April 16th. The Dutch premiere takes place at the end of May, during O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre., in Rotterdam. In the fall, the production will be shown at theatre festivals and will tour in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Club Gewalt<\/strong> is a music-based performance collective from Rotterdam. Rooted in rage fueled by injustice and love for togetherness, they make, compose, produce and perform their own work: ranging from feminist punk-christmas musicals and introspective killjoy operas about institutional racism, to disruptive club nights in museums and political slutpop concerts. Always highly skilled, musical, playful and somehow awkward. Club Gewalt is addicted to crowds and, on the eve of the apocalypse, they sing their lungs out in an attempt to unlock an alternative timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WITH <\/strong>Gerty van de Perre, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Klein, Sanna Elon Vrij, Suzanne Kipping<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMPOSITION\/TEXT\/PERFORMANCE <\/strong>Gerty Van de Perre, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Klein, Sanna Elon Vrij, Suzanne Kipping ARTISTIC DIRECTION <\/strong>Sanna Elon Vrij MUSIC DIRECTION <\/strong>Robbert Klein DRAMATURGY<\/strong> Mara Snip, Amir Vahidi FINAL DIRECTION <\/strong>Lisa Lucassen COSTUME DESIGN<\/strong> Mayan Tuulia Frank COSTUME ASSISTANT<\/strong> Carlotta Schumann CELLULAR OBJECTS<\/strong> Hagen Keller SCENORAPHY <\/strong>Wes Broersen SOUND DESIGN<\/strong> Joost Muller TECHNICAL PRODUCTION<\/strong> Pablo Str\u00f6rmann TECHNIQUE<\/strong> Neuk\u00f6llner Oper, Noor Thijssen, Sipke Woudstra EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION<\/strong> Andrea van Bussel PRODUCTION ASSISTENT<\/strong> Zus Downes ASSISTANT DIRECTOR<\/strong> \/ PRODUCTION ASSITANT<\/strong> Leonore Del Mestre BUSINESS LEAD<\/strong> Rick Mouwen ARTDIRECTION CAMPAIGN<\/strong> MaartjeMerel PHOTOGRAPHY CAMPAIGN<\/strong> Pim Top COMMUNICATION<\/strong> Marlies van der Neut, Pauline Ouwerkerk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PREMIERE <\/strong>16 April 2026 LANGUAGE <\/strong>English, with German surtitles DURATION <\/strong>80 minutes

PLEASE NOTE<\/strong>\u00a0Strobe lighting and haze effects are used during the show; high volume level possible \u2013 ear protection is being provided if needed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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