We Don't Live Here Anymore

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.