‘Johnyboy’

Elena made a visit to one of the most heavily guarded prisons in Texas. She was meeting three penfriends there: one serving a life sentence and the other two sentenced to death. “Who has the right to decide whether someone can live or die?” asks the playwright. “Above all, I try to show what I have seen and to bring my own doubts to the performance.” After her disarming graduation work titled Elena (2015), Elena Peeters reports on a road trip in Johnyboy that immediately grabs your attention. A grippingly strong monologue and a quest for beauty and answers.