House of Rat
Light design for a new theatre play written and played by David Geysen, directed by Beaudil Elzenga.
About
Oscar lived for seventeen years. He couldn’t walk or talk, but together with his father, he experienced more adventures than many do in a lifetime. Adventures so wondrous that they sometimes seem more like fairy tales than memories.
Onstage, the father narrates. With humor, with joie de vivre, and with the pain of someone who has lost their child. He tells us the stories that sustain him, but in which he also seems to lose himself.
Is he a caring father, a hero, a storyteller—or someone who sometimes loses sight of his boundaries to avoid facing his grief?
Oscar en de Reus (“Oscar and the Giant”) is a moving, witty, and unsettling monologue about grief, fatherhood, and the power of storytelling.
And above all: about how you try to maintain control over yourself when your child is gone? House of Rat invites adult audiences to rediscover a sense of wonder in a childlike way. By immersing themselves in the imagination, absurdity, and lightheartedness with which Oscar and his father created their own world.
Credits
Text: David Geysen
Director: Beaudil Elzenga
Actor: David Geysen
Scenography: Jerrel Manuel
Costume design: Bernadette Kijzers
Light design: Jorg Schellekens
Film: Mischa Lind
Première
30 October 2025, House of Rat (Den Haag, NL)