Apart from two permanent members, Natali Broods, Robby Cleiren, Tine Embrechts and Nico Sturm will join in the creation and performance of STUKKEN which will have its opening performance in Kaaitheater. The material of the performance is provided by the writers Saskia De Coster, Patricia De Martelaere, Tom Lanoye, Bart Moeyaert, Yves Petry and Annelies Verbeke.

Inspired by Shakespeare and Hölderlin, Jan Decorte has created a cheery performance about power, jealousy, despair, love and a little bird. He is supported by his faithful henchmen Sigrid Vinks, Johan Daenen (set design), Sofie D’Hoore (costumes) and Luc Schaltin (lighting), and his actor friends Waas Gramser, Kris Van Trier and Herwig Ilegems.

Frank Vercruyssen and Tine Embrechts are working on a play based a.o. on the short story Plumes de bécasse by the Greek writer Thanassis Valtinos. This novella tells the story of a married couple. She wants a divorce, but he does not. She is quite insufferable, he possibly even more so. The title (stay / away) perfectly captures the atmosphere of their conversations, which is anything but peaceful!

Triptiek van de macht - part 2. Wolfskers derives from three film scenarios by the Russian film-maker Alexandr Sokurov, which were adapted by Jeroen Olyslaegers. We see three leaders – Lenin, Hitler and Hirohito – at a time when they are starting to lose their grip on reality.

In Wald, three voices are confronted with one another. The actors Tom de Hoog and Hilde Wils tell us the stories of those who were interned in the concentration camps and of those who try to imagine what it was like (texts by Heinrich Heine, W.G. Sebald, Marguerite Duras). The third voice is that of music. Seated at the piano is Alain Franco, who presents us with a musical discourse, with music from Zimmermann, Brahms, van Beethoven, Robert Schumann a.o.

In 2007 Carly Wijs performed Niemand kan het, a monologue the Dutch photographer and writer Hans Aarsman wrote in consultation with her. In 1995 Aarsman gave up photography. ‘Because it is something nobody can do’, nobody can record the true nature of the world in an image. Do we really see what there is to be seen? In her ironic approach, Wijs constantly misleads the audience.