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We Don't Live Here Anymore

Jakop Ahlbom
Sat 13 Dec 20:00 - 21:20
Sat 13 Dec 2025
20:00 - 21:20
  • Sat 13 Dec 2025
    20:00 - 21:20
    Koninklijke Schouwburg, Den Haag
    Main hall
    Past event

Two couples, seemingly closely connected, become caught up in a web of desires, guilt and betrayal. Is it pure passion, an escape from the mundane, or a deep emptiness that drives them? Secrets are whispered and the truth is twisted. How much remains hidden between lovers and friends? And what responsibility do you take for your own actions?

Jakop invited Marijke Schermer to write this new theatre text We Don’t Live Here Anymore for the company. In the show we hear the characters’ dialogues as voice-overs, while the performers express their inner emotions in Ahlbom’s unique language of movement. The characters’ emotional lives are visualised by (the bodies of) the performers, while we listen to their conversations. What is said, and what remains unspoken?

Sources of inspiration for this show were the novellas We Don’t Live Here Anymore and In the bedroom by Andre Dubus, the novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and the eponymous film by John Curran, the film Closer by Mike Nichols, and Husbands and Wives by Woody Allen.

 

We Don’t Live Here Anymore is a piece about hidden truths and the discomfort that can arise when choices made in the past start to feel restrictive. The characters find themselves at a breaking point where they start to question themselves and their desires anew. Instead of contenting themselves with what is, they search for what could be. This poetic piece challenges our reasoning as well as our imagination. It allows us to feel the pain, doubts and strengths of lovers in transformation. 

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  • The voice-overs are English spoken.
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Credits

Regie Jakop Ahlbom | Choreografie Jakop Ahlbom ism de spelers | Tekst Marijke Schermer | Dramaturgie Judith Wendel | Vertaling Rina Vergano | Muziek- en sounddesign Leonard Lucieer | Decor- en kostuumdesign Thomas Rupert | Lichtdesign Yuri Schreuders | Spelers Silke Hundertmark Mary, Gwen Langenberg Anna, Renato Bertolino William, Reinier Schimmel George | Voice-over acteurs Stacey Goddard Mary, Alison Campbell Anna, Brandon Delagraentiss William, Jonathan Gundel George | Campagnemateriaal Foto- videografie Rahi Rezvani | Styling Jolijn van Panhuis 

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