Step into the unique artistic world of in-house artist and audience favourite Luanda Casella and her brother Pablo Casella. The Brazilian theatre director is now making her fifth appearance at DE SINGEL, returning for the first time since her production Elektra Unbound was selected for Het TheaterFestival 2024. Trouble Score promises to be an extraordinary experience, thanks to her unparalleled style, a complex composition of music, layered text, and sound fragments. With laser light illuminating a minimalist set, she conjures the illusion of vast distances and immense structures.
In the form of a ritual pop concert, the Casellas dive into a criminal family scandal that they have been trying to unravel for more than twenty years. They uncover an impossible story in which the innocence of a child collides with the distorted reality of trauma. They explore the unreliable memories of victims, witnesses, and perpetrators, set against the backdrop of racial segregation and a military dictatorship.
With abundant humour, magical realism, and speculative fiction, Trouble Score captures the fantastic, mysterious, and often hallucinatory nature of family dynamics, and transforms these negative events into pop songs and healing mantras.