Guy Cassiers and Tom Lanoye are focusing on ‘the play of all plays’: Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In pursuing his ambitions and fighting his fears, the young Hamlet comes face to face with himself.

Performance based on a people’s assembly that actually took place in ancient Greece. The Ancient Greek text is still topical and raises questions about the left and right wing, about the how and why of democracy, and the responsibility of the politician as well as that of the citizen. Following the federal elections on Sunday, 25th May 2014, Malpertuis will tour several towns and cities with this acclaimed performance.

Edith Beale and her daughter Edith live in a dilapidated villa in the chic suburb of East Hampton in New York. Their only companions are fleas, cats and a couple of raccoons. They reminisce about unrequited love and taunt each other about the past and present to the point where they laugh until they cry. Chiel van Berkel is the mother and Gène Bervoets the daughter!

WoWmen! - In Lifting Mountains with My Belly, or The Pregnancy Project, three heavily pregnant women talk about their experience of pregnancy. Three different views on what it’s like to have something in your belly, and what it’s like to be inside the belly of something bigger.

WoWmen! - The Catalan dancer and choreographer Pere Faura is fascinated by the mechanisms of sexual arousal; the connection between dance and eroticism is the basis of the twofold programme that he will be presenting during WoWmen. In Striptease, he compares the art of stripping with theatre.