Photo´s Rob Logister

Me and the flea

A familiy show with live music and animation.   4+

in theaters starting October 2017

"Me and the flea" is a bizarre and exciting slapstick about an adorable street dog that found a new home with a caring family. However the dog has a colony of fleas in his fur that starts terrorizing the entire household. 

For the dog (and the fleas) the house is a true paradise: enough food, love and attention. However, this mood will soon end when the family's child takes the dog to bed overnight and wakes up in the morning full of red spots. What to do, send the dog away or fight the fleas? The last is chosen. The house is thoroughly cleaned and the fleas fought in all possible ways, and as their numbers decrease, the mood in the family becomes more happy. However, for the life of the fleas, paradise changes into chaos and despair: their happy dance music turn into mourning marshes.

Both worlds are shown in parallel, but individually they have no idea of the effects of their actions on the life of the other. A tragicomic collision of worlds, which diametrically went from joy to sorrow and vice versa, each in their own cosmos, but without realizing that they are so connected. A surreal story with a surprising ending.

“Me and the Flea" is music theater with magic lantern animations and live music.
The performance takes 55 minutes and is suitable for everyone from 4 to 104, without spoken word.

PERFORMERS: Marie Raemakers, Rob Logister, Rop Severien (projection performers)

Helene Jank (music), Jeannette van Steen (dramaturge and choreographer)
PRODUCTION: Marie Raemakers and Rob Logister

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