Black boxes that you can borrow against payment: the video store. For a moment there is one back at the Mercuriusplein in Assen. From June 1 to 5, visitors will take a trip down memory lane during the theatrical experience Remoria d’Amore.
Visitors are immersed for half an hour in an experience about memories and the idealization of their past. “You think you are going into a video store, but you are actually going into a kind of trip that you do not expect,” says creator Karel Hermans.
According to Hermans, this confusion can also be seen on the street. Passers-by look at the building in amazement and think that we are really renting out videos here. They then think that it is not normal to start a video store in this time. I really like that confusion.”
The theater maker conceived the performance together with the players of the theater gap year of the preliminary training of Garage TDI, the house for youth and youth theater in Assen. “We immerse you in a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia and melancholy. When you step outside again, you come back to reality.”
Assen offered Hermans inspiration for his ode to memory. “There is a lot of vacancy in Assen. An empty store reminds you of something that once was. That gives you a certain feeling. And it evokes a memory. That gave me inspiration.”
The theatrical experience can be enjoyed several times a day for visitors alone or in pairs. The performance is part of Art of Wonder, the youth theater festival, which takes place on 4 and 5 June in the Gouverneurstuin in Assen.