4Hoog

New production from 15 November ‘25!

For wayward dreamers and little adventurers from 3 years old.

ANDRS is a playful and absurd journey through a world where nothing is fixed.
Big is small there and nasty is nice, loud is quiet and what you have to, becomes what you want.

With expressive images, strange shapes, grand feelings and words that take on new meanings, we invite children into a world where being different is wonderful. A world where those who dare to search always find something and those who dare to lose always win something, where people sleep upside down while fish croak loudly. A performance in which the imagination breaks open, dreams are allowed to grow wild and everything can be turned upside down.

Do you dare to be ANDRS?

Play: Maryam Sserwamukoko & John Niyibizi
Text & mise-en-scène: Dounia Mahammed
Musique: Joram Kunde Boumkwo
Scenography & coaching: Simon D’Huyvetter
Technique: Peter Van Hoof
Production coordination: Lien Vanbossele
Production: 4Hoog
Coproduction: Perpodium

With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's tax shelter.

Image: Jena Ardell

About the makers

Maryam Sserwamukoko attends the master's programme in drama at KASK, where she created and performed the performance ‘Life in Plastic’ with theatre-maker Emma Verstraete. She also made her debut this autumn in FC Bergman's wordless performance ‘Work and Days’. She was also seen this summer in ‘Macbeth’ by Ghent collective En Garde.

John Niyibizi graduated as a performer and creator from RITCS, school of arts, Brussels, in 2022. In London, he connected the dots with a course in Collaborative Theatre Making at Rose Bruford College. On stage, he mainly uses his physicality to tell stories and create worlds.
He currently plays in the performance ‘PUPPY/POPPY’ (DE MAAN & BRONKS) directed by Jef Van gestel and also in ‘The Soft Layer’ by Jozef Wouters. In the past, he could be seen in ‘Dwarskijker’ by de Roovers and ‘De stomme van Portici’ (WALPURGIS) directed by Judith Vindevogel.

Dounia Mahammed graduated from the drama programme at KASK in 2015 and describes herself as a queer seeking writing maker. She is artist in residence at arts centre Moussem. Dounia's work often plays with language and sound, looking for ways of (mis-)communicating.
She broke through with the production ‘Salut Copain’, her final work with which she became laureate of the Young Theatre Writing Award at Theater aan Zee, Ostend, in 2016. Besides her own solo work, Dounia Mohammed regularly collaborates on theatre productions with others. In 2021, for instance, she wrote and performed the children's show ‘Bambiraptor’ (8+) together with Jonas Baeke and Mats Vandroogenbroeck

Kunde aka Joram Kunde Boumkwo is a rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist who mixes hip-hop with elements of contemporary jazz, P-funk and afrobeat.
Surrounded by his father's Pan-African polyrhythmic music and his own collection of nineties hip-hop, he developed a passion for beatboxing and beatmaking as a ten-year-old. Later, the Ghent-based artist developed into a pianist, vocalist and bass guitarist. His debut album Dandelion was released in 2024 on W.E.R.F. Records. In that concept album, he uses storytelling, rap, spoken word and field recordings of his experiences in Cameroon to explore the complexities of his Afro-Belgian identity, intergenerational trauma, toxic masculinity and neocolonialism.

Simon D'Huyvetter graduated from the Drama Department of the KASK in Ghent in 2011. In recent years, he has worked as a theatre maker and performer at Kopergietery, DE MAAN, BRONKS, De Batterie, Blauwhuis, Uitwijken, LARF! and hetpaleis, among others. Since April 2023, he has been working as artistic director of 4Hoog in Ghent.