What would your life look like if you could re-examine your sexuality in public space?
PEEKABOO is a vision in which the world is a sex playground. This universe depicts new ways of contact through cruising: seeking fleeting, sexual contacts in the open air. Theatre maker Maxime Dreesen approaches this phenomenon as getting lost in a web of experimental relationships and unexpected encounters.
Music, hypnosis, drag, text and dance come together in this performance. You meet numerous entities such as shapeshifter Couenne, mating bird Courtney, superstar Birame, Oscar The Explorer, Julia the hypnotist in the sky and Benne on the keys. They collide and drip, search and hide, sing and laugh in a scenography of touche-touche that is as lively and sexual as the characters themselves. Each in search of their own personal idea of pleasure.
Curiosity and excitement are the common threads of this story, which brings together kinky comedy, campy musical songs and intimate ASMR in a dreamy, teletubby-esque landscape.
There is no revolution, without a sexual revolution!
concept and directing - Maxime Dreesen by and with Drag Couenne/Adrien De Biasi, Courtney May Robertson & Birame text - Oscar Mathieu Le Bussy music - Benne Dousselaere hypnosis - Julia E. Dyck dramaturgy - Hannah Brugge scenography and light - touche–touche (Théo Demans) costume - Maximilian Rittler graphic design - Yanis Berrewaerts videography - Charles Dhondt technics - Mathijs Geraerts production management - Marie Dejonghe production - Tabooboo vzw coproduction - De Nieuwe Vorst & De Studio with the support of - de Vlaamse overheid, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21 & PLAN Brabant with thanks to - Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Julie Cafmeyer, Verkadefabriek, Het Zuidelijk Toneel & Studio Carwash
Maxime Dreesen (1996) is theaterregisseur en performer. Diens werk behandelt thema’s zoals sekspositiviteit, unlearning, gender spectrum en schaamte. Maxime zet diens missie voort om de wereld seksueel meertalig op te voeden en neemt met een humoristische blik beladen thema’s onder de loep. Na de protestperformance Youth For Sex (2021) en solovoorstelling Countersex Education (2022) vertrekt PEEKABOO vanuit een collectieve en maatschappelijke insteek van (publieke) seksualiteit.
