Decorte had earlier adapted Euripides to make «Betonliebe + Fleischkrieg» Medeia and now he is working on The Bacchae. What interests Decorte is the element of extreme horror in the story and the contrast between the reason of Pentheus, king of Thebes, and the passion in the character of Dionysus, god of ecstasy, wine and theatre.

Wittgenstein Incorporated is a re-construction of three lectures the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein gave in Cambridge before the Second World War for a select audience of colleagues and close friends. Wittgenstein paced up and down the room while philosophising out loud and in impromptu fashion – while allowing others to witness it. Rerun of the legendary Kaaitheater production made 20 years ago.

With Marzipan or Plexi Marijs Boulogne has created a production that combines the narrative character of a fairy tale with a musical (text, music, dance) and the intractability of a performance. A fairy tale about ‘hunger’: desire, (female) ecstasy, symbiosis and sexuality.

Alexandra Bachzetsis has been exploring the realms of mainstream
popular culture such as hip-hop, fashion, striptease and film. In Dream Season she examines the conventions of soap opera. Dream Season is amusingly critical, contemporary and feminine. It is an erotic anthropological view of our society.

Following the success of Roman Tragedies and Angels in America, Kaaitheater is once again presenting a theatre marathon by Toneelgroep Amsterdam. The director Ivo van Hove mobi-lises the whole ensemble to tackle a light-hearted comedy of manners by the 18th-century Ital-ian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Summer Trilogy focuses on the materialist excesses and amo-rous intrigues of an upper middle-class family.

Six hard-rockers have broken down in their old Citroën and are stranded in a snow-covered landscape. The French artist and stage designer Philippe Quesne shows a slice of life, detailed and humorous. His sources of inspiration are Beckett, Maeterlinck, Goya, Dürer, and hard rock and mediaeval music too. A masterpiece!

For our younger readers, in the early eighties Maatschappij Discordia was the figurehead of a new sort of theatre that tackled the classic repertoire in a fresh and uninhibited way. It laid the ground for tg STAN, Dood Paard and many other small and independent collectives that followed them. In recent years Discordia has faded slightly into the background (and out of the subsidy lists), but now they are back with new work! So make sure you come and see it!

A probing documentary on the fascinating life of the dance icon, pioneer and performer Anna Halprin.

Julius Caesar, whose eloquence made him the voice of the oppressed, speaks to us. Julius Caesar is the second part, following Lex, of Peter Verhelst’s series of plays about absolute rulers in antiquity.

Under the title Big Heap / Mountain, Miet Warlop creates a number of ‘propositions’ regarding what can and cannot be perceived. For each of these propositions, she looks for one or more partners in crime. She explores the boundaries of our imagination with a small arsenal of everyday objects and shows us how much fantasy we put into our struggles with reality.

Abattoir Fermé’s tenth anniversary is being celebrated at the Kaaitheater with a remix of the notorious Chaos Trilogy (Indie, Tinseltown, Lalaland). The piece is set against the backdrop of Lalaland, a metropolis where the apocalypse has already started. The nerve centre of this city is Wilfried Pateet-Borremans – stage director, monstre sacré, brilliant lunatic.