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NOISE

Club Gewalt
Fri 20 Nov and Sat 21 Nov
Fri 20 Nov 2026
and
Sat 21 Nov 2026

Imagine fluorescent lighting. Imagine a PowerPoint presentation. Imagine a young professional mom. Imagine a semi-intellectual seminar on recovering after a postnatal depression. Imagine an analog synthesizer on wheels. Imagine a musical song about your baby falling off the couch. Imagine the world collapsing. Imagine far too many words. Imagine far too much emotion. Imagine far too little hope. Imagine hope. 

What starts as a hallucinatory seminar on how to overcome an existential crisis, ends in a cathartic submersion in noise.

In this intensely immersive performance opera, born out of the urgency to learn how to navigate a world in collapse, Club Gewalt asks themselves the question: how can you readjust your senses under the constant static of information predicting the apocalypse? How do we give meaning to a future that doesn’t overflow with prosperity? 

We live in a time of polycrisis. We are confronted with the renaissance of fascism, the arrival of the climate crisis, Western complicity in a genocide, vegetables and fruit full of PFAS, our own identities that turn out to be contaminated with (internalized) racism, sexism and homophobia. Once, we were promised a future of stability and progress; now systems all around us and in ourselves are threatening to collapse.

The human survival instinct (LION! DANGER! FIGHT OR FLIGHT! SURVIVE! CELEBRATE!) is failing massively when it comes to dealing with the complexity of today’s problems. Our amygdala’s are being immensely overstimulated and we are getting stuck in an anxiety limbo. Can we learn to accept the collapsing of systems as a law of nature, without ceasing our protest against injustice? Can we heal ourselves by, instead of only naming the crises, feeling them deeply? Can we finally complete our stress cycles, so we can navigate a world on fire? Can we fall in love with being human all over again? And: is this the moment to find God? Cuz: never waste a good crisis.

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This performance is spoken in Dutch with English subtitles. 

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★★★★★ “NOISE feels like a manifesto against whiny drivel, a call to fight against what causes the tension.” - NRC

“Club Gewalt Takes Center Stage” - Theaterkrant

“You hold your breath and keep your ears open: The immersive sound performance NOISE explores the state of our society.” - Die Tageszeitung

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About Club Gewalt

Club Gewalt is a music-based performance collective from Rotterdam. Rooted in a rejection of injustice and a love for coming together, they create, compose, produce, and perform their own work: from feminist punk Christmas musicals and introspective killjoy operas about institutional racism, to disruptive club nights in museums and political slutpop concerts. Always virtuosic, musical, humorous, and somehow unsettling. Club Gewalt is addicted to its audience and, on the eve of the apocalypse, sings its heart out in an attempt to unlock an alternative timeline. Because in the unknown lies the gateway to change.

Toneelkijkserie 1 | Bij Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag

Toneelkijkserie 1 | Theater aan het Spui

Credits

composition, text, performance Gerty Van de Perre, Loulou Hameleers, Robbert Klein, Sanna Elon Vrij, and Suzanne Kipping | artistic direction Sanna Elon Vrij | music direction Robbert Klein | dramaturgy Amir Vahidi, Mara Snip | stage direction Lisa Lucassen | assistant director Leonore del Mestre | costume design Mayan Tuulia Frank (in collaboration with Carlotta Schumann, Hagen Keller) | set design, lighting design Wes Broersen | sound design Joost Muller | technical production Pablo Strörmann | technical support Sipke Woudstra, Noor Thijssen | production manager Andrea Vos-van Bussel | production assistant Zus Downes | business manager Rick Mouwen | campaign art direction MaartjeMerel | photography Pim Top | communications Marlies van der Neut, Pauline Ouwerkerk | in co-production with Neuköllner Oper Berlin | with thanks to Fonds Podiumkunsten, Municipality of Rotterdam

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