Heimat

Freek Vielen, Rebekka de Wit, Tom Struyf, Suzanne Grotenhuis and Harald Austbø spent a week in a nursing home, curious to find out what’s left of a life that’s nearly over. Looking for the perceptions of people with the most experience in what we all want to do so well: living.

Armed with a camera they decided to dig deeper. Deeper and deeper. Closer to home. Each of them asked their parents and grandparents at the once so familiar kitchen table: what is life about? And how should it be lived?

In Heimat they answer the answers they were given and encounter new questions. About yesterday, today and tomorrow. About our grandparents, ourselves and our children.

'Heimat touches and leaves a lasting impression. As a grandma says: 'Open your arms to love, and then close them.' Let this performance embrace you and cherish it.'
Tuur Devens, theaterkrant.nl

'Heimat is touching and recognizable theater that responds to our emotions, but above all is damn well put together.'
Eline Van de Voorde, cobra.be

Heimat was praised by the jury of the Theatre Festival 2014 in Flanders and selected for Circuit X, a project that aims to encourage promising young dramatists.

from and with: Rebekka de Wit, Suzanne Grotenhuis, Harald Austbø, Tom Struyf, Freek Vielen | text: Rebekka de Wit | direction: Freek Vielen | music: Harald Austbø | technics: Sander Salden | production: detheatermaker | co-production: TAZ, deBuren, the Dutch Embassy in Belgium, De Tijd, kc deSingel & Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond | in collaboration with vzw zonder walt

Heimat premiered on August 6, 2013, at TAZ Festival (Oostende, B), and was performed almost fifty times from 2013 to 2015 in Belgium and the Netherlands.