• Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Bea Borgers

  • Mémé - Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

    © Sarah Vanhee

Mémé

Sarah Vanhee / CAMPO

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Mémé is a solo performance by Sarah Vanhee, with guest appearances by puppets, ghosts and a child. An intergenerational, multi-layered and plurilingual work about the relationship to the ancestors, to the (native) soil and to the female body, starring the spirits of Vanhee's West Flemish grandmothers who – like many women of that time – spent most of their lives ‘laboring’, in the two senses of the word: bearing and raising children; and working in the home and ‘on the land’ – always in service of others.

How does today’s world relate to those forgotten women of the past, and to the earth they cultivated? And how do we see them reflected in the forgotten women of today, whose labor and labor are still being exploited?  

It is an ode to those ‘invisibilized’ women, to the earth, to life itself, both emotional and intellectual, to work and pleasure. Mémé is a ritual attempt by Vanhee to bring her grandmothers back to life, re-connect, repair, and then – differently – say goodbye again, in a time without boundaries.  

 

Mémé premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.

 

In Dutch, West Flemish & English, with Dutch & English subtitles
+- 90 minutes
Extra information: use of smoke on scene

press

Mémé restores grandmothers to their rightful place, something they never got in their lifetime.

le Cahier - Mathilde Côté,

An intimate and touching play.

theatre.quebec - Daphné Bathalon,

The deep relationship I have with my son, my grandparents never had with their children

De Standaard - Katrien Elen,

In this ode to their strength and to their existence, Vanhee gives the grandmothers the attention and love they had to lack during their lives.

NRC - Ron Rijghard - ****,

Vanhee takes on the role of a mediumistic storyteller linking the past and the present.

i.c.a.p. - Francesco Chiaro and Danja Burchard,

The performance gradually expands into pure, benevolent emotion, with a touch of good-natured humour.

JEU - Mario Cloutier,

Going beyond biography, her approach articulates intimacy and history in a gesture that is both meticulous and far-reaching.

La Libre Belgique - Marie Baudet ,

Mémé is personal, tender and funny and has an almost cathartic ending.

e-tcetera - Daphne de Roo ,

Mémé is a rich reflection that will be recognisable to many families.

De Standaard - Charlotte De Somviele - ***,

Mémé' is a heartfelt ode to Sarah Vanhee's late grandmothers.

pzazz - Jasper Delva,

The piece is an ode, a thank-you to my grandmothers

VRT Radio 1 - Culture Club - Bent van Looy,

The comeback of the grandmothers

falter.at - Sara Schausberger,

Mémé is a celebration of our lives being intimately connected to the land from which we come.

A conversation with Sarah Vanhee - Myriam Stéphanie Perraton Lambert ,
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