Deeper

CAMPO ^(Belgium) & Gosia Wdowik ^(Poland)

Minimum age 14+

60 minutes

English spoken

Dutch & French surtitled

Wed 26.11.25 – 20:00 Theater Malpertuis Tielt

An urgent show about technological power and digital vulnerability.

How does it feel to encounter your digital doppelgänger in deepfake (nude) images? For many teenage girls, this is not a dystopian fantasy, but a real threat. AI technologies like deepfake make gender-based digital violence more accessible than ever and have profound psychological and social implications. DEEPER, the new theatre performance by Gosia Wdowik, explores how these technologies affect young women's relationship with their own body, sexuality and identity.

Based on conversations with teenage girls about deepfake technologies and sexuality, Gosia Wdowik creates a theatre performance that opens up space for dialogue between different generations of women, shared reflection, emotional coping and solidarity. What does it mean for teenagers to grow up in these times and learn about themselves in a hyper-mediatized environment that frames their body and sexuality as a threatening risk, linked to feelings of fear, shame, humiliation and loss of control? What relationship do teenage girls today have with their own image? How do they approach intimacy? And is there room for female empowerment and pleasure?

Gosia Wdowik is a Polish theatre-maker known for her committed and investigative performances. Her work focuses on social and feminist themes, with a strong emphasis on women's experiences and voices. During NEXT 2024, she already presented She was a Friend of Someone Else, about abortion and women's rights in Poland. With DEEPER, she continues her quest for ways in which theatre can offer resistance to oppression and digital manipulation.

concept, text & direction Gosia Wdowik dramaturgy Maria Rößler text collaboration Marta Bacewicz set design Aleksander Prowaliński & Gosia Wdowik light design Aleksander Prowaliński performance Jaśmina Polak, Karin Tanghe & Laura Vanborm music Teoniki Rożynek video animation Karolina Wojtas video Wim Piqueur makeup Johanna Cool technique Piet Depoortere & Babette Poncelet teenager experts Jagoda Szymkiewicz, Stefania Sural, Lisa Coolen, Monica Keys, Gitte Slabbaert & Aiko Benaouisse artistic support Pol Heyvaert & Dobromir Dymecki production CAMPO coproduction the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025, Festival Theaterformen (Hannover), Festival actoral (Marseille), Frascati Producties supported by Ammodo (Amsterdam) & Perpodium with the support of the taxshelter of the Belgian Federal Government via BNPPFFF