4Hoog

New production from 15 November ‘25!

For wayward dreamers and little adventurers from 3 years old.

ANDRS is a playful and absurd journey through a world where nothing is fixed. Big is small there and nasty is nice, loud is quiet and what you have to, becomes what you want.

With expressive images, strange shapes, grand feelings and words that take on new meanings, we invite children into a world where being different is wonderful. A world where those who dare to search always find something and those who dare to lose always win something, where people sleep upside down while fish croak loudly. A performance in which the imagination breaks open, dreams are allowed to grow wild and everything can be turned upside down.

Do you dare to be ANDRS?

Spel: Maryam Sserwamukoko, John Niyibizi & Joram Kunde Boumkwo
Muziek: Joram Kunde Boumkwo
Tekst & regie: Dounia Mahammed & Sara Lâm
Scenografie: Musia Mwankumi
Lichtontwerp : Ellie Bryce
Kostumering: Rachid Laachir

Stage kostuum: Fien Verheyen
Techniek: Peter Van Hoof
Productieleiding: Emma Verstraete en Flo Delameilleure

Productie: 4Hoog
Coproductie: Perpodium
Met de steun van de taxshelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid via UFund.

met dank aan: Samuel Baïdoo en Stephanie Collingwoode Williams

Beeld: Jena Ardell

About the makers

Maryam Sserwamukoko attends the master's programme in drama at KASK, where she created and performed the performance ‘Life in Plastic’ with theatre-maker Emma Verstraete. She also made her debut this autumn in FC Bergman's wordless performance ‘Work and Days’. She was also seen this summer in ‘Macbeth’ by Ghent collective En Garde.

John Niyibizi graduated as a performer and creator from RITCS, school of arts, Brussels, in 2022. In London, he connected the dots with a course in Collaborative Theatre Making at Rose Bruford College. On stage, he mainly uses his physicality to tell stories and create worlds. He currently plays in the performance ‘PUPPY/POPPY’ (DE MAAN & BRONKS) directed by Jef Van gestel and also in ‘The Soft Layer’ by Jozef Wouters. In the past, he could be seen in ‘Dwarskijker’ by de Roovers and ‘De stomme van Portici’ (WALPURGIS) directed by Judith Vindevogel.

Dounia Mahammed (she/they) graduated from KASK in 2015 with the performance Salut Copain and describes themself as a queer writing-making performer whose work seeks connection, navigating between wonder and doubt. Dounia created w a t e r w a s w a s s e r and GNAB◊RRETN¡ with Alan Van Rompuy, PANIC & OTHER ATTACKS with Roos Nieboer, and MALINCONICO with Par Hasard and co; performed in the work of others; wrote text for Ophelia by Inne Goris; provided voice work and coaching for Bambiraptor by Jonas Baeke and Mats Vandroogenbroeck; and premiered this spring with the performance En peau de pêche.

Kunde aka Joram Kunde Boumkwo is a rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist who mixes hip-hop with elements of contemporary jazz, P-funk and afrobeat. Surrounded by his father's Pan-African polyrhythmic music and his own collection of nineties hip-hop, he developed a passion for beatboxing and beatmaking as a ten-year-old. Later, the Ghent-based artist developed into a pianist, vocalist and bass guitarist. His debut album Dandelion was released in 2024 on W.E.R.F. Records. In that concept album, he uses storytelling, rap, spoken word and field recordings of his experiences in Cameroon to explore the complexities of his Afro-Belgian identity, intergenerational trauma, toxic masculinity and neocolonialism.

Sara Lâm is a transdisciplinary artist, theatre maker and co-founder of KIN Collective. After graduating from the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, she worked as a creator and performer with De Warme Winkel, Ula Sickle, De Roovers, Par Hasard and others. Together with KIN Collective, she creates intuitive, research-based and anti-capitalist work. KIN C is currently working on “Heritage”. In this artistic research, they create magical and virtual meeting places with ancestors, among other things. And in the artistic research “Assimilated memory”, Sara explores the sensory experience of her biculturalism through writing and drawing.
Her work is always deeply personal and rooted in a queer and anti-racist critique of society and power structures. It is both an intimate reflection on her own experiences and an exposure of layers of oppression and violence in our language, media and culture. Her work reminds us of the joy that comes with creating, transforming and bringing something new and different into the world.