I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. — ‘House of Leaves’, Mark Z. Danielewski
Charlotte De Bruyne and Angelo Tijssens, both members of the performance collective Ontroerend Goed, are creating their first joint project with OMG. Jan Paternoster (Black Box Revelation) provides the soundtrack.
OMG is a performance about the things we fear and what that does to us. And about how fear has turned into a product. Political parties use it, film producers sell it, as do dating sites, insurance companies, the media and the pharmaceutical industry: everyone is trying to frighten us. And we gladly go along with it. All of us. Being scared together creates a bond. Because everyone is afraid of being alone.
'‘OMG’ is a performance that places itself outside time, space or narrative actions and transforms theatre into incantatory performance art (with a subtle whiff of humour) in which the world is shown as a smoldering black hole where only suspicious and shrieking voices are heard.'