Sneakpeek: Coppers - The Room

A new SneakPeek

Five years ago, Mathijs F Scheepers, together with his theatre collective SKaGeN, developed a unique storytelling format: SneakPeek (formerly WatchApp). You receive messages, photos and videos in real time, as if you were part of the story yourself, and this goes on for several days. Productions such as Emmi & Leo, #Thomize and IMKE were an instant success, reaching around 25,000 viewers. Since then, the SneakPeek app has come of age and now also offers documentaries, reality shows and hybrid theatre productions as smartphone experiences.

However, the demand for good stories on the SneakPeek app has never ceased amongst its early fans: a multi-day experience with a strong storyline in real time, thrillingly written and powerfully acted.

For this new production, Scheepers teamed up with Toni Coppers, the most widely read and best-selling crime writer in Flanders. He wrote a new crime story especially for the SneakPeek format: *De Kamer* (The Room), a quintessential Coppers.

Kim Lavigne, an arborist and a rebel, lost both her parents at the age of six. Her uncle Bernard McLeary, a police officer and workaholic, was granted custody of little Kim. The two share an unbreakable bond, even though the young man in his thirties wasn’t really up to the practical task of looking after the girl at the time. Kim often did her homework in an empty cell rather than at the kitchen table, but fortunately this left her with nothing but a healthy passion for detective work.

More than twenty years after the death of Kim’s parents, something strange happens: the flowers on their grave have disappeared and Kim receives a strange email. The email contains a photo of an old, creepy room. The wallpaper is stained with damp, the furniture is shabby, and the carpet on the floor is worn.

The photo acts like a red rag to a bull for Bernard, and Kim soon discovers that this old room holds a sinister significance for him. What at first seems like innocent teasing quickly escalates into a blood-curdling drama.

Concept & Showrunner: Mathijs F Scheepers / Script: Toni Coppers / Starring: Koen De Sutter, Dagmar Dierick, Michael Vergauwen, Joke De Bruyn, Robby Cleiren, Clara van den Broek, Korneel Hamers and Elke Roels / Set Design & Costumes: Barbara De Laere / On-set Costumes: Charlotte Goethals / Director of Photography and First Camera: Pieter Van Campe / Second Camera: Robbe Vandekeere / First camera assistant: Felix De Beus / On-set sound: Ibe Bauwens / Second on-set assistant: Garke Sondervan / On-set production & graphic design: Lidia Nagibina / Set design for ‘The Room’: Frank de Wit / Production manager: Korneel Hamers / Editing: Nils Janssens