THE MEGALOMANIAC

De Megalomaan (The Megalomaniac) is Dutch music theatre about a young person’s inability to cope with the loss of dreams. I wrote and staged it as a storytelling event, where the audience joins actors and musicians on stage and all theatricality is deconstructed to the bare minimum, to enable collected imagination.

The show is a mixture of storytelling, sound design and music. A nod to how stories were told by troubadours or grandparents, and an outstretched hand to the audience’s own imagination. For music, we hear a viola, a flute and a vibraphone, which in Weronika Ast’s composition tackle the story using leitmotifs, combined with my own sound design of more industrial tones.