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Swiping Right

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Location Kortrijk - Antigone

Content warning 


This performance contains testimonies and interviews that include hurtful or discriminatory statements, including instances of transphobia, racism, sexism, and the stigmatisation of individuals based on political views or identity.

Duration

75 minutes

Can (online) dating be used as a tool to combat political polarization? In Swiping Right, Sophie Anna Veelenturf examines what happens when political opposites meet in intimate situations. How does ideology influence our dating, desires and relationships? How do political divides impact the way in which we compromise between attraction and resistance? Based on her own experience of doomed dates with right-wing, conservative men, Sophie Anna, a self-proclaimed ‘leftie’, brings her own personal quest to the stage.

 

With humour and sharp dialogue, she brings to the stage theatrical re-enactments of the interviews she conducted, not just with her dates, but also with politically mixed couples and academics of all political persuasions. The result is a fascinating blend of ideology and intimacy, in which Sophie Anna flirts with stand-up and documentary theatre. In an uncompromising yet vulnerable way, she explores the boundaries between love and politics. In doing so, she holds up a mirror to the audience and asks the burning question: do opposites really attract?

 

This first creation with BERLIN builds on her acclaimed master’s thesis, Linkse Gaatjes. Premiere in the festival summer of 2025.

 

Credits

  1. Production of Sophie Anna Veelenturf - BERLIN
  2. Concept, spel en tekst Sophie Anna Veelenturf
  3. Directed by Doris de Vries
  4. Research Jarne Van Loon
  5. Production Jarne Van Loon
  6. Co-direction Jarne Van Loon
  7. Spelcoach Kristien De Proost, Karolien De Bleser
  8. Outside eye Marah Haj Hussein
  9. Scenography Chloé Wasselin Dandre
  10. Composition Seppe Vande Veire
  11. Technische leiding Nick De Keyser, Marjolein Demey
  12. Zakelijke leiding Tine Verhaert, Patrick Sterckx
  13. Office management Maya Van der Brempt
  14. Verkoop en projectcoördinatie David Bauwens
  15. Communicatie Sam Loncke
  16. Coproduction CAMPO, NTGent, kunstencentrum nona, c o r s o, Het Oude Badhuis, Theater aan Zee, de Brakke Grond
  17. Special thanks to alle geïnterviewden, Rashif El Kaoui, Josie Dale-Jones
  18. Supported by de Vlaamse overheid, Tax Shelter-maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid, Gallop Tax Shelter, deAuteurs, the Stobbs New Ideas Fund
  19. Decor Wiebe Moerman
  20. Technical support Rex Tee, Jakke Theyssens
  21. Photographs Koen Broos

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