Leen Verheyen: Free text material

Leen Verheyen is a theater maker, author and teacher. She wrote theater texts for companies such as Villanella, HETPALEIS and Luxembourg and also directed her own performances. In addition, she also started a course in philosophy in which she obtained a doctorate.

On her website you will find more information about both her philosophical research and her literary work (prose/theatre/film). Below you will find a selection of the offer:

Theater

For adults / young people

• Parking Lot Blues (2008): two players, a woman who confronts the man who killed her daughter a few months earlier.
• Human Interest (2009): two monologues that intertwine and enter into dialogue, interspersed with music about school shootings and mass shootings.
• Autoroute du soleil (2010): two monologues that occasionally interact, two characters tell the story of a man who goes abroad with his daughter after a confrontational divorce.
• Smallfilm (2011): monologue on the phenomenon of so-called altruistic infanticide. A girl aims her video camera at her neighbor's window. And looks. An insane universe reveals itself.

For young audience

• Usually it rained (2009): text for children from 8 years old about a boy who creates a whole world out of cardboard and a girl who tries to get wide.
• Sarie, my friend Kaspar and I (2009): text for preschoolers about a seemingly innocent sleepover that turns into a dangerous game.
• Lost: text for children from 5 years old in which all kinds of absurd situations arise when suddenly all words appear to be lost.

Leen's offer for prose, poetry and film is less extensive. However, you can also find it via the link.