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!

Burning Ice - The Botanical Gardens houses the oldest European seed bank. It keeps the seeds of rare indigenous wild plants and there is a particular focus on its collection of wild beans and fabaceous plants. It is only very exceptionally that it is possible to have a guided tour of this unique seed bank.

Burning Ice - The five artifacts presented in this exhibit describe postnatural history beginning with the earliest domesticated animals and plants, to the dawn of genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

Where do we stand and how did we get here? And where do we go from here? These are important questions! Does the superb company de KOE perhaps have an answer? Come and see the Grand Finale of their majestic yet also light-hearted history of the West, a cheerful meandering stream of personal memories, political anecdotes, historical events and unexpected philosophical insights.

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.

In Ivana Müller’s work the title always contains the concept of the performance. In this production, ten performers present countless variations on what a ‘common body’ can mean. Can a group of people represent one idea?

In a marshy landscape inhabited by strange creatures stands a building on stilts, the Swamp Club, an arts centre run by three residents. When the centre is threatened, the community takes measures to defend itself... This new performance by Philippe Quesne is a fantastic, musical urban fable.

Following Otaku – the first comedy show ever to be selected for the Theatre Festival! – Joost Vandecasteele returns with a comedy show that questions both comedy and show. Something different, in other words. Something between the political and the personal, the perverse and the porous. A performance about the period between the elections and Flemish emancipation, a one man thing about a man and things.

Following radical adaptations that include La Divina Commedia and The Old Testament, FC Bergman now turns to another literary classic, the epic animal poem Van den vos Reynaerde (Reynard the Fox). Liesa Van der Aa and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop put this journey/quest to music. Josse De Pauw provides the words. Dirk Roofthooft, Viviane De Muynck and Gregory Frateur also participate.