PREY is a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and Muziektheater Transparant with original music by Annelies Van Parys, in co-production with Klarafestival and Theater Rotterdam and in collaboration with Ictus ensemble. 

The première takes place on 25 & 26 March 2023 at Théâtre Varia, together with Kaaitheater and as part of the Klarafestival in Brussels. PREY is presented on 31 March 2023 at Theater Rotterdam.

“We are food” (Val Plumwood)

A new humility

How can we change the way we view being human from a radical ecological perspective? What stories help us to better understand the disruptions caused by the climate crisis? These questions are at the heart of PREY. And perhaps our own mortality and vulnerability provide a good starting point for the search for an answer.


PREY will consist of three solos by three generations of women. Each has its own focus: text/language, song/music and dance/performance. With every solo, the tension between the human and the landscape, performer and scenography, becomes more intense and intimate. The essence of PREY is finding solace in the frightening fact that we too are food, that we too belong to an ecological cycle of life and death.

Kris Verdonck has gathered an extraordinary group of people around him for this performance: composer Annelies Van Parys, Ictus ensemble, actress Katelijne Damen, singer Anna Clare Hauf and dancer Mooni Van Tichel.

Verdonck wrote text and libretto and is responsible for the scenography, a multimedia landscape in which the performers increasingly disappear and are swallowed up.

We are all food.
Interview with Kris Verdonck and Annelies Van Parys

PREY - Teaser

25 March 2023 - 18:00
Théâtre Varia - SOLD OUT

26 March 2023 - 20:00
Théâtre Varia - TICKETS

31 March 2023 - 20:00
Theater Rotterdam - TICKETS

The installation Tipping Point is a sensitive and poetic tribute to those dying glaciers. It stages the (re)birth of an artificial glacier protected by a dome; a drip is feeding the glacier that will grow during the exhibition. The device invites the viewer to attend the birth of this artificial glacier. It is inspired by the “ice stupas” invented by the engineer Sonam Wangchuk and used to fight against water shortages during the summer in Ladakh.

Between a laboratory experiment, an attempt to repair the climate or an ironic collector’s item, the installation confronts us with time and scales; 10.000 years ago, the stabilisation of our cryosphere coincided with the first human traces we found in Mesopotamia, while the fist glaciers are disappearing in 70 years under the pressure of the human activity.

Safra'Numériques 2023
Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff

Kittiwake Fountain. February 02023 - 02025.

Kittiwakes are a type of seaguls in the arctic region, threatened with extinction due to climate change. The remaining flocks move to the cities where they are safe from eagles. They make hundreds of nests mainly on public buildings. Part of a larger project dealing with cohabitation between wild life and in collaboration with researchers of NINA, architect Kjeld Nash and artist Kåre Grundvåg, Lawrence Malstaf designed 3 light and mobile kittiwake hotels. During the next two nesting seasons they will attempt to slowly move the birds and their nests from Tromsø Kunstforening (art museum that will be renovated) to a new permanent structure further down in the park. 

With support of KORO and Tromsø Kommune

Lawrence Malstaf

Waterfront Observatorium. Summer 2023.

During the second world war a bunker was constructed at the end of the pier reaching 200m out into the strait surrounding Tromsø island. A perfect location to control what happens on the sea, in the sky and the city.  

By installing a glass dome and fire place on the roof, the bunker will become a project space where one can experience small exhibitions and events on city planning and wild life, art and nature conservation - or where you can simply contemplate the sky and the sea, the city and its future.

With support of KORO, Tromsø Kommune, Sparebanken i Nord Norge.

Lawrence Malstaf