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During World War II, in 1942, the Japanese authorities in Deutsch India decide to intern citizens of European countries. Separated camps were created, for women and children on one side, and men and teenagers on the other. Jeroen Brouwers, author of Decanted Red, was 3 years old when he was interned with his sister, his mother and his grand-mother in Tjideng (now Jakarta). He tells how his relationship with his mother was broken for the rest of his life because of this stay in those camps where food was rare and violence of Japanese guards frequent, absurd and barbaric. He also tells how, once adult, each one of his love relations was marked by this story. Elegy for his mother, Decanted Red blends memory and forgetting, literature and necessity to write, difficulty of the relations between men and women and anguish of living. Performed by one of the greatest European actors, Dirk Roofthooft, and directed by Guy Cassiers (whose trilogy about power, presented in Amiens, made him one of the essential Europeans directors), this text reveals all its power and emotions. It also tries to thwart this unsolvable enigma: the impossible memory and the impossibility not to remember.

“The Belgian director Guy Cassiers and his compatriot Dirk Roofthooft co-sign with Corien Baart a limpid adaptation of the text and offer an extraordinary answer to the ever-lasting question of the treatment of violence in theater.” Maïa Bouteillet - Libération