DO NOT LOOK BACK WITH REGRET
Davy Pieters/Theater Rotterdam
Last year, more than ever before, we were confronted by our mortality. The vulnerability of a body, but also of life on earth itself, was visible everywhere. In DO NOT LOOK BACK WITH REGRET, the director Davy Pieters invites you to consider this. In a visual and filmic production, we see two women (performed by Marlies Heuer and Klára Alexová) in a process of letting go, grief and the search for comfort. What if you are confronted with loss? Where is your refuge if the end is in sight? Music by Jimi Zoet (URLAND).
Davy Pieters: ‘It’s about seeing what we don’t want to see. Our relationship with mortality is not the same as 18 months ago. How do we relate to loss? How do we create the space to stop and process it?’
DO NOT LOOK BACK WITH REGRET is nominated for the VSCD Mime award 2021. The jury writes ” The visual language is as sublimated as it is overwhelming. Blackouts separate the scenes into cinematic shots, in which time seems to jump forward or backward. All the while black ashes are falling down steadily, Varja Klosse’s sparse lighting design is magical, and Jimi Zoet’s soundscape tingles and thunders. The stillness of the closing scene speaks of both an intimate togetherness, and a farewell. Here a grand, universal story is told with minimal resources.”
concept, direction & stage design: Davy Pieters
performance: Klára Alexová, Marlies Heuer
music: Jimi Zoet
lighting design: Varja Klosse
costumes: Erik Bosman, Karin van der Leeuw
technical: Peter Leeuwenburgh, Andi Krijgsman and John Thijssen
advice: Anoek Nuyens
production: Andrea van Bussel, Anne van Buren
marketing: Dieke van der Spek, Robin Laurens
scenery sponsorship: Stout Perspex