theatre
Kaaitheater
Jan Lauwers & Needcompany
15-16-17-18/9/2011
A famous actor feels that his memory, the home of the soul, is slowly breaking down. He decides to end his life in a reality show with a worldwide audience: ‘The Art of Entertainment’. Until the bitter end he continues to play his role. The art of entertainment thus unfolds as an entertainer’s apologia and a conversation about the decadence of the Occident. A Monty Python style comedy: absurd, black, sharp, incisive.
In Dutch, French and English; surtitled in Dutch, French and English
theatre
Kaaistudios
De Warme Winkel
11-12/10/2011
Weense Herfst - In his posthumous autobiography The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig creates an impressive image of the old Europe. De Warme Winkel energetically forges Zweig’s life-story into unruly and intriguing theatre.
In Dutch
theatre
Het Neerhof
De Warme Winkel
14-15-16/10/2011
Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most important poets in the German language. In Rainer Maria, the group brings to life this tormented writer and his work. This production was widely acclaimed as from its premiere in a barn at the 2007 Oerol open-air festival in the Netherlands. It is now being performed in the barn at Het Neerhof farm in Dilbeek.
In Dutch
theatre
De Kring
De Warme Winkel
18-19/10/2011
Weense Herfst - Thomas Bernhard was a razor-sharp analyst and pessimist, who in his dark plays inimitably took apart the illusions of the day. His oeuvre is characterised by an abhorrence of Austria and its culture, lacerating comments, an exceptionally wry humour and characters who act without thinking. In these respects, Total Thomas does credit to Bernhard. This production celebrates the paradox of his existence, because although he hated art and constantly shed doubt on the sense of it, he frantically continued to produce it.
In Dutch
theatre
Kaaitheater
De Warme Winkel
Alma »
22/10/2011
Weense Herfst - Alma was a muse to many. Symphonies, operas and other compositions were dedicated to her. Alma’s life ran parallel to the surging cultural revolution of the decadent fin de siècle in Vienna. Alma was the wife of Gustav Mahler, and hostess in her own notorious and extravagant salons. The whole of the cultural elite of the time passed through her drawing room. In Alma, De Warme Winkel disentangles this jumble of stories and its actors bring this dangerous muse to life.
In Dutch
theatre
Kaaitheater
Philippe Quesne/ Vivarium Studio
26/10/2011
In his flat, a character called Serge puts together mini-performances. On Sundays he
shows them to a few friends. The laconic Serge finds everyday life just
as exciting as a gathering of inventors. The French theatre-maker Philippe Quesne combines theatre, art and music
to create mildly ironic, cartoon-like performances.
theatre
Kaaitheater
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
De vrek »
4-5/11/2011
In Ivo Van Hove’s hands, The Miser, Molière’s classic 1668 comedy, becomes a hideous portrait of a family where all the relationships are defined and perverted by money. A razor-sharp analysis of a society in which the mechanisms of the business world seep into the most intimate human situations.
In Dutch; surtitled in French
music/dance
Kaaitheater
Zita Swoon Group / Rosas
16/11/2011
A masterly dialogue between music and dance – Zita Swoon Group and the Rosas dancer Simon Mayer achieved this onstage at the Kaaitheater two seasons ago. It was called Dancing with the Sound Hobbyist and is still an adventurous dance trip through the cosmopolitan musical world of the band led by Stef Kamil Carlens.
theatre
Kaaitheater
NTGent / Peter Verhelst
Nero »
18-19/11/2011
Peter Verhelst has written a piece about Nero’s childhood and directs it himself. Wim Opbrouck acts, plays music and dances. He is the little Nero, the boy obsessed with the scraps of music he can hear everywhere, who sings in the dark to ward off his fear. The boy who cuts animals open out of curiosity. Out of love. Always in search of something warm, something sweet, something soft.
In Dutch
theatre
Kaaitheater
Jan Decorte/Bloet, Comp. Marius & Kaaitheater
12-13-14/1/2012
Jan Decorte is writing a new chapter in his series of ‘compression’ of classical plays, called Niks of niks, a very loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘romantic’ comedy Much Ado About Nothing. This comedy on the inanity of human goings-on appeared to Decorte to be a logical sequel to his successful Wintervögelchen.
In Dutch
theatre
Kaaistudios
Tristero
Reset »
25-26-27-28/1/2012
In The Search Project, Tristero appeared on stage with no fewer than thirteen actors; in Reset the company goes back to the essence. Kristien De Proost, Youri Dirkx and Peter Vandenbempt take on the task of giving the company a ‘reboot’. The ideal moment to (re)discover Tristero!
In Dutch and French; surtitled in Dutch and French
theatre
Kaaitheater
Toneelhuis/Guy Cassiers
2-3-4/3/2012
Guy Cassiers and Tom Lanoye are continuing their successful collaboration in Bloed & rozen. Now their attention is shifting to the legal system and religious power, focusing on the historical personae of Jeanne d’Arc and Gilles de Rais. After After being performed in the Cour d’Honneur of the Avignon festival, the show will now be presented in Brussels.
In Dutch; surtitled in French
music/theatre
Kaaitheater
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
8-9-10/3/2012
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma is returning to the Kaaitheater with the second episode of their brilliant saga Life and Times. While Episode 1 began with birth and continued to age 8, Episode 2 takes the tale on to the age of 14, a time of full longing, losers, and smoking in the woods. The Rosas dancer Fumiyo Ikeda is also taking part in this new episode!
In English
theatre
KAAITHEATER
Toneelhuis/Guy Cassiers/Josse De Pauw
19-20-21/4/2012
Heart of Darkness is without doubt the most famous work by the
Polish-English writer Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). This ‘parable’ has
inspired many artists, a.o. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now).
Duister hart is Josse De Pauw’s adaptation of Conrad’s novella, in which
he also performs on stage, directed by Guy Cassiers.
In Dutch; surtitled in French
dance
Kaaitheater
Rosas & Ictus
Drumming »
25-26-27-28-29/4/2012
Drumming (1998) is undoubtedly one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most fascinating choreographic works: a dazzling dance set to a powerful score for percussion by Steve Reich, performed. The Ictus Ensemble bring this compelling score to life with breath-taking precision. Drumming is a stunning journey, a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of life energy.
