The most frequently performed Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans has written the play of the moment with "Blind". Richard lives in a tightly secured gated community to which he has retreated after the death of his wife. For no apparent reason, he fires his housekeeper and asks his only daughter Helen to look after him, as he is in danger of going blind.
The relationship between father and daughter has long been distant - the differences that separate them are too great. Richard, once a successful water engineer and still convinced of his own abilities, despises Helen's idealistic attitude as a lawyer and rejects the choice of her husband, a black intellectual. Helen, in turn, accuses him of closing his mind to the challenges of a changing society - from gender equality and racism to the responsible use of natural resources.
During one of their visits, an incident occurs: the electric shutters suddenly close as if a robbery is in progress. Father and daughter are forced to stay together - whether they want to or not.
In her latest work, Lot Vekemans (whose successful play "Judas" has already been shown at the Cumberlandsche Galerie) illuminates with great sensitivity the seemingly irreconcilable differences that lead to conflicts in many families and circles of friends today. Richard and Helen fight with each other politically and personally - for the right view of the world, for their sovereignty, but also for their mutual love as daughter and father. We experience a relationship that could hardly be more human and deep - just like in real life.

The young director Leonie Rebentisch recently attracted attention with her stage adaptation of the novel "Gittersee" at the Berliner Ensemble. With empathy, no false sentimentality and a precise focus on the actors, she staged the story about fleeing the republic, coming of age and a teenager who is recruited by the GDR Stasi. The press praised the "beautiful, clear, never bold acting" and the "tension and psychology without taking the audience's thoughts away". The production was invited to the "Radikal jung" festival in 2025. Leonie Rebentisch is particularly interested in dense and ambivalent relationship constellations, which "Blind" also deals with impressively.

Production: Leonie Rebentisch