CIRCUIT X  – On an empty stage, Dounia Mahammed uses language as a medium in which to philosophize, dream, draw, hesitate and question on stage. Salut Copain swings from wonder to despair.

JURY SELECTION  – Discodesafinado’s fuse of minimal techno and experimental electronics proofs incomprehensible but infectious. Radical Light unleashes the musical concept of pulse on five dancers: straightforward, multilayered and unadulterated. Immerse yourself in sound and movement at an uncompromising 120 beats per minute.

JURY SELECTION  – Risjaar (Richard) is deformed, limps and is hideously ugly. In his play Richard III, Shakespeare created one of the most memorable monsters in literature. What makes him so attractive is his free and unashamedly cheerful display of amorality. Brazenly inhuman opinions have never sounded so sweet.

JURY SELECTION  –  With a multicultural mix of more than twenty performers, this multilingual and versatile production translates the relevance of Malcolm’s heritage to the city today. The result is not a biographical portrait, but a funky theatre concert in which Malcolm’s ideas and events in his life are transformed into street dance, hip hop, slam poetry, and virtuoso jazz solos.

JURY SELECTION – In this monologue by Fikry El Azzouzi, Sara De Roo tells the multicultural love story between the white journalist Eva and the dishwasher Ayoub who is of Moroccan heritage. What started as a confrontation between two worlds, has become an attempt to connection. And it is necessary, because if we do not build bridges, we will remain alone.

JURY SELECTION – What does scenography mean today? What kinds of places or landscapes are relevant in this era? Jozef Wouters established a temporary Decoratelier – a motley crew of builders, thinkers, former sailors, and a retired landscape painter – to find answers on these questions. Unfortunately, this production cannot be reprised. Jozef Wouters and Jeroen Peeters are collaborating with the TheaterFestival to publish the script of the play with the De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek. The first edition will be presented during an official book presentation at the TheaterFestival.. De eerste druk wordt gepresenteerd tijdens een officieel moment op het TheaterFestival.

Artists chart their city. In MAPping, the Mestizo Arts Platform has created an alternative cartography of cities, starting from the way they are experienced and lived in by artists.After Antwerp and Mechelen, it’s now Brussels’ turn, in collaboration with the KVS. Junior Mthombeni, one of the KVS Faces, is the director of the Brussels edition.

GOLDEN OLDIE  –  With Golden Oldie Ola Pola Potloodgat the TheaterFestival delves into its archive. Exactly 15 years ago Pascale Platel, Randi De Vlieghe and BRONKS won the Grand Theatre Festival Prize at the Dutch-Flemish Theatre Festival with this fairy-tale whirlwind about pirates, piranhas, crocodiles and elephants. A gem from performing arts history that the TheaterFestival wants you to (re)discover!

In the performance Crazy But True, children between the ages of seven and eleven form a panel of experts. A text is whispered to them via headsets. They repeat what they hear, and thus present a growing list of extraordinary facts.