Sunken Red / Guy Cassiers and Dirk Roofthooft

Sunken Red is a lamentation for a deceased mother and a recollection of the Japanese prison camps of the Second World War, based on the novel Bezonken Rood by the Dutch author Jeroen Brouwers (1940).
Dirk Roofthooft performs the monologue either in Dutch, French, Spanish or English. As Rouge décanté , the French version, the production had a successful French première at the 2006 Avignon Festival and was also performed in several French theatres and at the Festival TransAmériques 2007 in Montreal (CA). The English version Sunken Red was very well received at the Theater Spektakel in Zurich in 2005, at the legendary Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York (2008) and in Wroclaw in Poland (2009). Sunken Red and Rouge décanté continue their successful tour in France, Italy and Luxemburg. In October 2009 the spanish version Rojo reposado had a very successful opening in Madrid. Rojo reposado toured in Spain in the automn of 2010.

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• Sunken Red
• Guy Cassiers
• Bezonken rood
• Rojo reposado
• Rouge décanté
• Dirk Roofthooft