In today’s rapidly changing world, what does intimacy actually mean?
LOOM – Storytelling Collective
Location: Treehouse NDSM, Paviljoen
- GENRE: Music theatre, Storytelling, Theatre
- THEME: Changing the Norm, Collective work, Connection, Recommended by Mezrab
- LANGUAGE: English
- ACCESSIBILITY: Assistance dogs welcome, Genderneutral toilets, Toilet for wheelchair users, Wheelchair accessible
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An intimate storytelling performance inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage”,
“Now What?” invites you to pull up a chair to what begins as an ordinary evening of wine, laughter, and small talk. Friends gather around a dinner table, and as the evening unfolds, the casual conversation slowly digs deeper into real life. Through honest stories of marital hardships, affairs, miscarriages, unwanted pregnancies, loneliness, friendship, and the quiet fear of growing apart, a beautiful truth emerges: over the years, this chosen family has become each other’s ultimate anchor.
Blending storytelling, theatre, music, humor, and deeply personal confession, Now What? explores what connection looks like in a world where the old rules no longer seem to fit.
Together, they dare to ask: in today’s rapidly changing world, what does intimacy actually mean? Can friendship become as meaningful as romantic love? Are we brave enough to live honestly without the traditional rules? And if the old blueprints no longer fit, what new ones are we willing to build?
Biography
Welcome to LOOM, a collective of storytellers who navigate the fractured landscapes of a disoriented world. With our stories, we challenge, connect, and stir something real. For us, storytelling is more than a performance. It is a radical act of vulnerability, reflectionand connection.
Our stories unfold in different voices and forms. Sometimes playful, sometimes raw, but always deeply human. They don’t just ask you to listen. They invite you in: to feel, to wonder, to question, and to carry something with you long after the lights go down. We met at the Mezrab Storytelling School. After graduating, we decided to join forces. To inspire each other, to create together and play.
LOOM consists of nine storytellers from different generations, backgrounds and disciplines: Brazilian, Dutch, French, Italian, Limburgish and Romanian. We are scientists, musicians, artists, comedians, writers, and everything in between. We invite you to step into our interwoven stories. Lose yourself in the threads—or let yourself be woven along and become part of the tapestry.
LOOM are: Ana Bender, Isadora Alves, Joost Delissen, Luana Matei, Maarten Duinker, Marion Laville, Natalino Bucci, and Wytske Versteeg.