   Garbage Mansion; or The Possibility of a Haunting
   2025
By Ghazale Moqanaki & Marieke Peeters
Interdisciplinary performance
45 minutes
Zaal 3, Het Nationale Theater,
Den Haag, The Netherlands

Garbage Mansion; or The Possibility of a Haunting is an experimental theater piece by Ghazale Moqanaki & Marieke Peeters. This interdisciplinary performance combines live performance, animation, and puppetry inside an installation. The installation resembles a supernatural hoarder’s house and the chaos, clutter, and intimacy it holds. The hoarder’s house becomes a portal in which we encounter the knitting of the universe and animate garbage. The installation is made with objects made of garbage bag material and wool. In a world that produces and throws away so much, hoarding is a relevant vehicle through which we can look closer at our relationship with waste. Garbage Mansion; or The Possibility of a Haunting has three acts and each act uses a different medium to tell the story of a supernatural hoarder. In this piece we wonder, where do things go? And how do we live with the possibility of being haunted by that which we throw away?

Art Directors & Creators: Ghazale Moqanaki & Marieke Peeters
Music: Ghazale Moqanaki
Costume Design: Marieke Peeters
Animation: Ghazale Moqanaki
Set Design: August Auberdine & Marieke Peeters
Performers: An Kuper & Elinos d’Estais
Singers: Fran Van Lysbettens & Isa Bornau

Garbage Mansion; or The Possibility of a Haunting, 2025, Interdisciplinary performance, Photo by Luna Obsidia