Man is truly searching for all sorts of things: friendship and sex, but also work, hobbies, missing animals and so on. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Tristero is presenting a super-deluxe version of its marvellous Search Project, their highly-acclaimed 2010 production based on found ‘wanted adverts’. This XL version that will be performed just once, promises to be historic: a tango orquestra from the music academy of Sint-Agatha-Berchem is taking part and for the first time members of Kaaitheater staff will be on stage.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
In Nora (A Doll’s House), Henrik Ibsen wrote a sharply critical play about the traditional roles of husband and wife in 19th-century marriage. This time tg STAN will be performing in English; Nora is a fascinating story about moral condescension and social hypocrisy, but it is also a subtle critique of consumerism in the Europe of 2012. Nora has been selected for the 2013 Theaterfestival.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
Ivo van Hove has a thing with Ingmar Bergman. He has already staged wonderful productions of Scenes from a Marriage and Cries and Whispers. Now he will be directing two plays by the Swedish theatre and film director: After the Rehearsal, a TV essay about theatre and acting, and Persona, a film Bergman himself regarded as one of his best works. You get to see them both in one evening.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.
The 'H' in H, an incident refers to the life and work of the Russian writer Daniil Harms (or Charms). Harms was the author of a remarkable body of work. His humour and violence remind us of Monty Python. H, an incident is the first musical-theatre production by theatre-maker and visual artist Kris Verdonck.
Following Alles is rustig (All is Quiet, 1999) and “Redde wie zich redden kan” geen slechte titel (‘Devil take the hindmost’ not a bad title) (2005), tg STAN is now creating the third part of its Bernhard trilogy. They’ve chosen Am Ziel. Matthias de Koning (Discordia) will set the table and Jolente De Keersmaeker, Sara De Roo and Damien De Schrijver will act.
In BALTHAZAR (1. Stories) a donkey is at the ‘centre of the action’. It is not reduced to the role of a piece of living scenery, but is given the leading part. A group of human performers is confronted with him. Balthazar (1. Stories) is inspired by Robert Bresson’s film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). The film tells the eventful life story of a donkey.
The Brussels theatre-maker Isabelle Dumont has put together a ‘cabinet of curiosities’, a colourful collection of ‘artificialia and naturalia’ – art objects and wonders of animal kingdom. She was guided by her amazement, always welcoming surprises, and is now sharing her delight with the public. On the basis of this collection she tells a story about the relationship between man and the animals down the ages.
In Toestand a woman (Kristien De Proost) takes a good look at herself. She analyses herself with detachment and reveals herself in all sincerity to her audience. She promises to be objective and to confine herself to the facts. External features can be verified. But is this not an illusion? Doesn’t the truth lie precisely in what she does not reveal?
'The power of theatrical madness.' In 2012 it will be thirty years since the theatre-maker and artist Jan Fabre made his quite remarkable entrance into Flemish theatre history with his eight-hour show This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen. Two years later he conquered international stages with The power of theatrical madness. In this second production Jan Fabre again questions the medium of theatre (opera, dance). At the same time he links the theatre of that time (1984) – and especially his own theatre work – to the theatrical heritage and art history. The thread running through it is the fairytale of the Emperor's new clothes, a metaphor for the illusion, the lie of theatre.
'This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen.' The legendary first theatre production by Jan Fabre. The performance lasts eight hours, the length of a typical working day. Fabre opts radically for the ‘real’ rather than the fiction, the illusion or the lie that we normally expect to see on stage.
The writer and dramatist Peter Verhelst created a monologue for and with Oscar Van Rompay. Apart from his theatre work at NTGent, Van Rompay also has a personal commitment in Kenya. How does the visual, mythical theatre of Peter Verhelst clash with Oscar Van Rompay’s testimony? And how can you say something meaningful about your own desire?
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The French artists Hippolyte Hentgen (Gaëlle Hippolyte & Lina Hentgen) have for some years been engaged as a duo in doing surreal drawings. They have increasingly been asked to contribute to stage designs, installations and sculptures. And so now this is their first performance. With the theatre-maker Philippe Quesne as their coach, they created a silent world in which their cartoonlike figures come to life.
Guy Cassiers and actress Katelijne Damen have adapted Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) for theatre. Woolf’s novel is a fantastic story about a character who lives from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and changes sex during the course of the story. In Orlando, Guy Cassiers is once again inspired by one of the great novels of modern literature.
