Nothing Happens Without You
USA / Belgium2025
Recommended age: 14+
Performed in English
Category GURMAND
Nothing Happens Without You is an intimate and disarming performance that confronts growing older, masculinity, empathy, and the politics of forgiveness. Blending elements of a ritual, an exorcism, and raw stand-up, Freeman invites the audience to shift from passive spectators to active participants in a shared space of reckoning and reflection. At its core, this piece explores what it means to care and support one another in a world increasingly defined by disconnection. How can we hold space together to transform the ordinary into the sacred?
Davis Freeman is an American artist based in Brussels with his company Random Scream. He makes contemporary theatre and dance, photo/video installations and curatorial projects. His work is referred to as devious political theatre or docu-performances, and often fights for a more ecological planet. On the side, he also teaches “Non Acting Acting for the Performer” and works as a voice artist.
Special thanks to Elke Van Campenhout, Dianne Fourdringier, Chez George & the Naked Theatre.