Gloria Boateng & Jade Wheeler

The Promised Boom … an anti-dream. A trip from the festival meadow straight to the integration office. THE PROMISED BOOM What is the Belgian dream? Does it actually exist? Belgium, Flanders, Boom…! Waking up with a hangover in the most idyllic place in the world. But what if the rose-colored glasses slowly fade? And reality intrudes?
Gloria Boateng and Jade Wheeler take you from Tomorrowland to the Department of Integration and Integration.

Concept and direction: Gloria Boateng & Jade Wheeler / Play: Jade Wheeler.
With the support of WIPCOOP/MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM and Socha vzw.

Gloria Boateng and Jade Wheeler met during Junior Mthombeni’s (KVS) production Dear Winnie. Gloria Boateng is a singer – songwriter, rapper, beatmaker, DJ and in recent years has been taking more and more steps towards theater. She toured various music venues such as Couleur Café, Les Ardentes, Sziget Festival…. She was featured in Dear Winnie, Rumble In The Jungle,… and created music for performances by Theatre de 4 mains.

Jade Wheeler is an American actress, passionate about the different points of view and new voices in Story Telling. She has been living in Belgium since 2019. Her experiences in a new country are the starting point for a pleasantly disturbed performance about the also dark and less known sides of a new story.

Find out more about Gloria Boateng: https://www.facebook.com/GloriaBoatengg/ ♦https://www.instagram.com/bowa____/ ♦ https://www.instagram.com/gloriaboatengg/ And about Jade Wheeler: https://www.jadewheeler.com/ ♦ https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsEarthaMae/ ♦ https://www.instagram.com/the_mundivagant_actor/