PISS POOL

Name: PISS POOL — Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot
Start: 2025-12-02T20:15:00+01:00
Location: Theater aan het Spui

Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

Tue 2 Dec 20:15

Performance

Tue 2 Dec 2025

20:15

Tue 2 Dec 2025

20:15

Theater aan het Spui, Den Haag

Hall 2

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In PISS POOL, you enter a TikTok mansion for the elderly: a seemingly luxurious wellness resort filled with massage chairs, beauty corners and sugar-free power drinks. Here, women film themselves performing hyper-modern rejuvenation rituals under the guidance of an influencer. But in this house of mirrors where time bends and refracts, no one truly owns her body.

Named after the artwork Piss Pool by Samantha Nye, the performance explores ageism from a feminist perspective. In Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot’s signature hybrid of digital avatars and living bodies, this theatrical video installation delves into the toxic underbelly of capitalist wellness culture—where the female body must remain young, fit and flawless, and where “self-care” no longer means caring for each other, but rather bearing sole responsibility for one’s own (ill) health.

With PISS POOL, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot continue the trajectory begun with their theatre hit BIMBO (2011), where the pornified, objectified female body took centre stage. Together with theatre maker and visual artist Lisa Schamlé, they now construct a disorienting wellness-world in which the concept of (life)time is twisted into a space where women—clothed or naked—reclaim time itself.

The performance is English spoken, and is also easy to follow if you do not understand the language due to it's physical nature.

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Credits

concept Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot | regie Bianca van der Schoot | performers, makers Suzan Boogaerdt, Ria Marks, Lisa Schamlé en in diverse samenstelling: Miquê Hamden, Hetty Hurkmans Vermeulen, Marianne Smit, Tanja Florence Uneken, Martje Verhagen | contentadvies Lisa Schamlé | decorontwerp Katrin Bombe | decorbouw Guido Bevers | kostuumontwerp Lotte Goos | video-ontwerp Rodrik Biersteker | Lichtontwerp Julian Maiwald | regie-assistent Agnes Lasseng | geluidsontwerp Wessel Schrik | technische productie Jurr van Diggele | techniek Daan Hazendonk, Niels Runderkamp, Marco Steenks, Wybe de Haan | contextprogramma Marieke Dijkwel | productieleider Joppe Kos | publiciteit Casper Koster | zakelijke leiding Anne van Buuren