BOTTOM-BELLY-BRAIN
2 performers with each 30.000 billion extras
Chances are you’ve never heard this BOTTOM-BELLY-BRAIN story like this before… and chances are your world will be completely changed after seeing the performance!
Glashouwer Theater Productions creates innovative and humorous theater that encourages reflection and expands consciousness: about our monetary system, about communication, or about death.
Now, Dette Glashouwer, together with composer/musician Joop van Brakel, takes you on another adventure to ask the question: “What actually is the BOTTOM/SOIL, what do we walk on, and what keeps us alive?” It turns out that our BELLY is directly connected to it. A handful of healthy soil contains as many living creatures (microbes) as there are people on Earth; our bellies contain more animals than we have cells. We will see how they hunt each other, have sex, eat each other, and poop each other out.
If microbes send signals from our intestines to our brain, who are we? Who is actually addicted to chocolate?
Humanity’s connection with its soil has never been so tangible as in BOTTOM-BELLY-BRAIN, featuring two performers with 30,000 billion extras each. Nothing in the performance is fabricated; the discoveries themselves are absurd enough.
Audience reactions: “Simply moving.” “What an important performance.” “Enthusiasm for your project, from Portugal to France and Norway.” “Everyone should see this.”
Credits
Text and performance: Dette Glashouwer
Music and performance: Joop van Brakel
Director: Dirk Groeneveld
Advertising: Leonie Jupijn – Wenting
Business management: Karin van den Berg
REVIEW OF THEATER COLLEGE
BOTTOM-BELLY-BRAIN Glashouwer’s fascination with microbes leads to the most cheerful presentation in ages.
Besides two theater makers, BOTTOM-BELLY-BRAIN features some 60,000 billion extras – if you count the microbes in the bodies of actress Dette Glashouwer and composer Joop van Brakel. Or rather, those microbes play the leading role in this performance. In about an hour, Glashouwer makes a compelling case for the importance of microbes in our history, our health, and the world’s problems.
Seen on March 13, 2025, Groote Museum, Amsterdam.
Foto’s: Lambert de Jong
Booking?
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