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Guy Cassiers/Toneelhuis & Toneelgroep Amsterdam

De welwillenden

theatre

De welwillenden
De welwillenden
Thu 02.06 - Sat 04.06.16

Guy Cassiers takes on Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones, almost a thousand pages long, about the persecution of the Jews during World War II.

Germaine Kruip

A Possibility of an Abstraction

theatre

A Possibility of an Abstraction
A Possibility of an Abstraction
Sat 14.05 - Sun 15.05.16

The Dutch artist Germaine Kruip transforms the theatrical space into a ‘field of cinematic experience’. Shadow, reflection, architecture, and stage become the characters in a filmic experience created in the moment itself.

Philippe Quesne

The night of the moles

theatre

The night of the moles (Welcome to Caveland!)
The night of the moles (Welcome to Caveland!)
Fri 06.05 - Mon 09.05.16

Welcome to Caveland! is set in an allegorical world populated by fantasy animals, giant moles and figures from the underworld. The cave dwellers travel from city to city like a circus to present their ‘ecosophical’ tale in theatres and at festivals.

Eric Joris/CREW & Peter Verhelst/NT Gent

Absence

theatre

Absence
Absence
Thu 28.04 - Fri 29.04.16

Capture my body

As a trauma patient, Fumiyo Ikeda is given inventive treatment by her therapist Frank Focketyn. Full body motion capture registers all her movements, as she repeatedly experiences and pushes away her memories and emotions. She feverishly steers her digital representation, hoping to come to an accommodation with it and thus emerge from her trauma. As always, Eric Joris and CREW play with your perceptions. In the meantime, Peter Verhelst’s text unravels trauma and the impossibility of intimacy.

Inne Goris & Dominique Pauwels/LOD muziektheater

Zonder Bloed

theatre music

Zonder Bloed
Zonder Bloed
Wed 13.04 - Fri 15.04.16

In the midst of a brutal act of revenge, a boy and a girl exchange looks. Unwittingly, and without saying a word, their lives become inextricably linked. Inne Goris has adapted Alessandro Baricco's novel about the impact of war and the shared destiny of perpetrator and victim. This universal tale of revenge and grief explicitly poses the question: is reconciliation possible?

Ruud Gielens, Rachid Benzine & Hiam Abbass

In the Eyes of Heaven

theatre

In the Eyes of Heaven
In the Eyes of Heaven
Thu 24.03 - Fri 25.03.16

This is a woman who, on payment, you briefly possess, but rarely to love her. She wants to save her daughter from the solitude into which her own fate has plunged her. She sees the hope of a new life disintegrate at the start of the Arab Spring.

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Angélica Liddell/Atra Bilis Teatro

Tandy

theatre

Tandy
Tandy
Sat 19.03 - Sun 20.03.16

For the first time we welcome the Spanish dramatist, writer and performer Angélica Liddell to the Kaaitheater. Her use of powerful imagery made her the revelation at the 2010 Avignon Festival. She is sometimes described as the female Rodrigio Garcia, that other big name in Spanish avant-garde theatre. Black humour and religious symbolism find a prominent place in her work.

Muziektheater Transparant & B'Rock

AND YOU MUST SUFFER / St.John Passion/Bach

theatre music

AND YOU MUST SUFFER / St.John Passion/Bach
AND YOU MUST SUFFER / St.John Passion/Bach
Thu 10.03 - Sat 12.03.16

Pierre Audi locates Bach's St. John Passion in an austere set inspired by Wim Delvoye's images. The passion questions the opposing claims on the truth found in religions and the conflicts it causes. Iconoclast Delvoye looks right through these truths with X-ray eyes, reducing them to a meagre pile of mouse bones.

TG STAN

wat/nu

theatre

wat/nu
wat/nu
Fri 04.03 - Sun 06.03.16

It is not since staging of/niet ten years ago in 2006 that the STAN actors have created a performance featuring just the four of them, with no guest actors. Now they are presenting wat/nu, based on Sleep you little child of mine by Jon Fosse and A Piece of Plastic by Marius von Mayenburg.

De Warme Winkel & Nieuw West

Amadeus

theatre

Amadeus
Amadeus
Fri 26.02 - Sat 27.02.16

A performance about the clash between Mozart’s dynamic talent and the craftsmanship of the hardworking Salieri. As well as a duel between two theatre-makers. Vincent Rietveld of De Warme Winkel and Marien Jongewaard, cofounder and inspirer of Nieuw West, take up the gauntlet.

Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper, Puppentheater Halle

The Ventriloquists Convention

theatre

The Ventriloquists Convention
The Ventriloquists Convention
Fri 29.01 - Sat 30.01.16

Gisèle Vienne stages a reconstruction of the largest annual gathering of ventriloquists in Kentucky. A polyphony of 30 voices — both the dummies and their ventriloquists — draws you into a tangle of complex psychologies.

Ant Hampton

The Extra People

theatre performance

The Extra People
The Extra People
Tue 26.01 - Tue 10.05.16

Guided by headphones and holding a flashlight to illuminate the darkness of a big, empty and dormant theatre, you're cast as an 'extra' in what appears to be a dream-like rehearsal of powerlessness.

Koen De Sutter

Montaigne

theatre

Montaigne
Montaigne
Fri 22.01 - Sat 23.01.16

The actor and director Koen De Sutter brings the philosopher Michel de Montaigne to the stage. Montaigne thinks about the large and small things of life. He is curious and looks critically at those in power and at himself. But above all, he is hungry for good conversation.

  • #rethink

Mesut Arslan

Betrayal

theatre

Betrayal
Betrayal
Tue 19.01 - Wed 20.01.16

Harold Pinters’ Betrayal (1978) ingeneously portrays a love triangle on stage. Passion and mediocrity, lies and desires, deception and self-deception wage battle with one another. The story unfolds in reverse chronological order, so you know ‘how it ends’. Lawrence Malstaf provides the impressive scenography with nine rotating walls through which you move freely on stage.

Ivo Dimchev

FB Theater

theatre performance

FB Theater
FB Theater
Fri 15.01 - Sat 16.01.16

Ivo Dimchev continues his quest for interaction with you, the audience. He invites you to post Facebook-comments, which a dramaturge turns into dialogues. Not only do you literally supply what the actors are saying, you equally shape their views and opinions. The end result remains impossible to predict!

Guy Cassiers/Toneelhuis

Caligula

theatre

Caligula
Caligula
Thu 10.12 - Sat 12.12.15

The Roman emperor Caligula is driven by the death of his sister and mistress to a tyrannical, arbitrary abuse of power. Guy Cassiers directs the play by Albert Camus. A search for the meaning of existence.

Ivo van Hove/Toneelgroep Amsterdam

Song from far away - cancelled

theatre

Song from far away - cancelled
Song from far away - cancelled
Wed 25.11 - Thu 26.11.15

A man returns from New York to his hometown of Amsterdam to attend the funeral of his younger brother. Simon Stephens, one of today’s best playwrights, wrote this monologue comprising a process of mourning. Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) composed Go where the love is, specifically for this performance. - Both shows have been cancelled due to the threat level being maintained in Brussels. 

Jan Decorte/Bloet & de Roovers

Geboeid/Prometheus

theatre

Geboeid/Prometheus
Geboeid/Prometheus
Fri 13.11 - Sun 15.11.15

Geboeid/Prometheus is a new play by Jan Decorte, based on the tragedy Aeschylus wrote in the 5th century BC. It’s an amazing work, and a powerful and menacing portrait of stubbornness.

Stefaan Van Brabandt & Bruno Vanden Broecke

Socrates

theatre

Socrates
Socrates
Sat 24.10.15

Socrates is the first in a series of philosophic monologues by Stefaan Van Brabandt. Each monologue is written as if the philosopher himself were speaking. Socrates is an ironic, poignant, tragicomic piece that sets us thinking.

  • #rethink

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Straight White Men

theatre

Straight White Men
Straight White Men
Thu 15.10 - Sat 17.10.15

Are you white, male and heterosexual? Then you are privileged, without realising it! Lee’s excellent all-American cast goes all out in this ‘naturalistic’ and contrary spoken theatre. This witty play about (sexual) identity and neoliberal values featured high on the New York theatre critics’ pick of the year lists.

Abattoir Fermé

Alice

theatre

Alice
Alice
Fri 25.09 - Sat 26.09.15

The dreamy nature of Alice in Wonderland, the classic book that is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2015, inspired Abattoir Fermé to create this adaptation for adults. The company translates Lewis Carroll’s absurd dream-like logic into a dark tale with powerful visual tableaux.

Peeping Tom

Vader

theatre dance

Vader
Vader
Fri 11.09 - Sat 12.09.15

Het Theaterfestival 2015 -With incisiveness and ingenuity, Father examines the moments when an old man’s memories (or are they imaginings, hallucinations?) start constantly turning the realities of everyday life into fantasy. Spectacular dance scenes are alternated wondrously with intimate and moving images.

Jakop Ahlbom

Horror

theatre

Horror
Horror
Wed 09.09.15

Het Theaterfestival 2015 - Horror is a homage to the horror genre: a compelling, thrilling and visual theatre spectacular with special effects one does not often see in a theatre but are in line with the series of evocative productions the Dutch cult director Jakop Ahlbom has made in recent years.

Meg Stuart

Hunter

theatre dance

Hunter
Hunter
Thu 03.09.15

Het Theaterfestival 2015 - In Hunter, her first full-length solo, the choreographer Meg Stuart explores her own body as an archive populated with personal and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic heroes, fantasies and invisible forces.

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