Space

Space

Social issues under the knife

Space is the theatre company belonging to Petra Ardai and Luc van Loo. Space performs ‘keyhole surgery’: they make interdisciplinary theatre documentaries in which social issues come under the knife and politics are made personal. On the subject of new Europe, for example, Space asks the question: who am I in relation to where I live? Space removes taboos from their singular context, thereby exposing the world behind the facts. The company tries to find theatrical ways of overstepping documentaries.

Space designs events in which the boundary between spectator and actor are erased; the makers, actors and audience together form a community undergoing research. Space always adapts the concept to suit the location and the occasion, thereby allowing several different versions of the same idea to emerge. Many of Space’s shows are performed out of doors.