Cabin Fever

Lisanne van Aert received a contribution to develop her new theatre text. In Cabin Fever, Freya, a young woman with chronic skin disease, decides she wants to meet her biological father. In the middle of the night, she rents a cabin in the woods and speaks to his voicemail. When Ed shows up, it soon becomes clear that Freya only wants to know one thing from him: how does he live with the disease, which is eating away at more and more of her skin? Cabin Fever is a musical body horror family drama about the isolation of chronic illness and loss of control.

Lisanne van Aert is a writer and theatre maker. She graduated from the Writing for Performance programme at HKU in 2017. Since 2022, Lisanne has been part of the permanent maker's pool of music theatre company KASKO. Since then, she has been walking an eclectic career path, which has included writing about cows that have outgrown their pastures (KASKO), women with exploding heads (Tweetakt) and boys who disappear into the night (Sonnevanck).