Landscape with radioactive dogs - Theater Bellevue (NL)

Inspired by his family history, writer and director Espen Hjort sets a pack of radioactive dogs on the trail of a Norwegian professor. The performance takes us to a mysterious research institute in the early years of the Cold War, where radiation experiments are carried out on dogs. Five actors play both humans and dogs in an ever-mutating story about progress and responsibility.

The story

When one dog escapes and mutates, a series of scenes unfolds that connects seemingly unrelated characters: the professor’s wife, a caretaker who buries the dogs, an invisible director, a young photographer, and a performance artist who comes to perform at the summer party. A hallucinatory chain reaction is set in motion—one that long outlives the Cold War.

With Landscape with Radioactive Dogs, Espen creates a gripping performance about the consequences of human actions. How can we look beyond the human? What is justice in the relationship between humans and animals?

I freeze
I stare in amazement
the dog won’t let go

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text & direction Espen Hjort performed by Marlies Heuer, Lowie van Oers, Anne-Chris Schulting, Romy Vreden, Clarette Schouten light design Varja Klosse costume design Daphne de Winkel

A production by Theater Bellevue
Made possible in part by Future Narratives (Creative Europe Programme of the European Union) and the Performing Arts Fund NL (Fonds Podiumkunsten)

Het nieuwstedelijk is part of “Future Narratives for Planet Earth” — a European network of theatre houses collaborating to develop new stories about the relationship between humans and nature. The main goal of the project is to once again view the future as a space full of possibilities. Within “Future Narratives,” seven new theatre productions are being created, which will be presented in Leuven at Shakespeare is dead.