Silence of the Dogs Het Zuidelijk Toneel / Ada Ozdogan

The television on the table spews images, a star twinkles in the window even during the day. Only the dog that appears at the door can elicit a smile from the woman. An intrusive neighbor seeks contact: past the window, at the door, and eventually even at the table. What is going on here? What drives this woman, that star, that dog, and why is there suddenly a pool of blood on the kitchen floor? It is up to the audience to reconstruct the story in this text-light theater piece that looms before you like a visual puzzle. 

In Silence of the Dogs, Ada Ozdogan depicts the resistance of a lonely woman in a hectic and threatening world. She does so again with a big nod to the film world: Hitchcockian suspense meets Tarantino-esque violence meets Chantal Akerman's eye for the female experience. Last season, actress Julia Ghysels won a Theo d’Or for her role in Ada’s Holly Goosebumps, a theater blockbuster inspired by iconic film soundtracks.