You realize what you’ve been carrying when you have nowhere to put it.
Caro & Jonas
Location: Treehouse NDSM, Container
- GENRE: Comedy, Site specific theatre, Text theatre, Theatre
- THEME: Changing the Norm, Systems under pressure
- LANGUAGE: Dutch
- ACCESSIBILITY: Assistance dogs welcome, Genderneutral toilets
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I believe my loneliness is my own fault. I should be more outgoing. I should be grateful I have a home at all even if it is not the kind I want.
While young people across Europe suffer from problems that would benefit from socials contacts and stability, more and more separate, temporary housing is being build. Blocks stacked on top of each other that make it impossible to connect: no roommates, no space to invite people over. But instead of addressing this policy, we place the problem on ourselves. That has to change.
In CONTAINERTIRADES you follow two residents of container homes: One has locked themselves inside; the other has locked themselves outside. They both unload a tirade: a long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval. It raises the question: how (not) to emotionally navigate the housing crisis?
Biography
Caro & Jonas is a collaboration started in 2023 between theatre director Caroline Geiser and writer Jonas van Dalen, both based in the Netherlands. Together they explore themes of loneliness, identity, as well as other themes concerning their generation.
Through their first collaboration a method evolved that took their own experiences as starting points for a new work. In which later broader themes and philosophy is added. That piece showcased both their vulnerability as well as their ability to show to the funny side of tragedy.
Not held back by different mother tongues, they share a love of language, and humor, that continues to shines through in their work as a duo. But they have separate careers as well. Caro directed PHI: A corporal essay as well as Dark Night of the Soul, and Jonas worked on multiple text for theatre and film since graduating from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2024.
Now they want to take their themes to a larger audience. The first stop is Amsterdam Fringe Festival where they will make site specific theatre about the housing crisis: CONTAINERTIRADES.