KLEI (2024)

Production: Iovivat
Director: Niels Smit Duyzentkunst

To celebrate IOVIVAT’s 125th anniversary, the largest open-air spectacle of the year was staged in 2024—with 40 actors, live music, and even a plane crash. The play tells the bizarre and compelling story of how Groningen became rich through clay… until everything spirals out of control.

Raisa first appears as a farmer’s daughter: a stoic figure who, through pure physical theater, helps to portray the colorful village. Later, Raisa returns as the posh antagonist Mrs. van Loonstrook, who, after arriving in a roaring vintage Volkswagen, painstakingly strips the villagers of even their very last pennies.