Young theatre maker Orion Maxted builds a performance machine. Humans take the role of the different machine parts – applying a simple algorhythm, they transform each other’s words and gestures into complex structures.

Has democracy become something we passively endure? Christophe Meierhans is testing out the notion, and you are his guinea pig. He invites you to prepare a meal – turning the kitchen into a political battleground! There’s nothing more challenging than taking part in the action onstage and thereby sharing responsibility for the result.

This – unexpectedly current – rerun from 2008 shows Paris from the perspective of the artist-immigrant. During the 20th century countless people took refuge in the French capital, including many artists and intellectuals. Just as likely, they ended up working as taxi drivers or street cleaners. Christian Bakalov’s depictions of their social exclusion and humiliation urge you to question your own feelings of empathy and solidarity.

During the First World War, the theatre-maker Simon Allemeersch’s great grandfather deserted and fled on foot to the Netherlands, where he ended up being imprisoned for four years in the military camp at Zeist. Together with a group of actors, makers and musicians, Simon Allemeersch attempts to reconstruct his story.

Following her starring role in the major production Hamlet vs Hamlet (directed by Guy Cassiers), the actress and theatre-maker Abke Haring is once again working on a small scale in her new solo Unisono. Her work is always intense and brutally honest.

Maatschappij Discordia takes a look at the Oedipus myth from the perspective of Oedipus’ mother, Jocasta. The French philosopher René Girard believes that our actions never come directly from ourselves, but are always influenced by prevalent social models. So which model influenced Jocasta?