In MEMENTO MORI!, documentary filmmaker and visual artist Els Dietvorst brings two solos together. The first is performed by Dirk Roofthooft, one of Flanders’ most iconic actors, the second is performed by the Brussels-based actress Aurelie Di Marino. You can expect a theatre evening about fragility and transience, but also about universal themes like individualization, globalization, the relationship between humanity and nature, and migration.

As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.

As from this season, the Kaaitheater and the RITS will be joining forces for the presentation of graduation productions from the college’s theatre course. These productions are the final part of the Bachelor and Master courses in Acting and Directing. All shows are in Dutch.

Following Alles is rustig (All is Quiet, 1999) and “Redde wie zich redden kan” geen slechte titel (‘Devil take the hindmost’ not a bad title) (2005), tg STAN is now creating the third part of its Bernhard trilogy. They’ve chosen Am Ziel. Matthias de Koning (Discordia) will set the table and Jolente De Keersmaeker, Sara De Roo and Damien De Schrijver will act.

In the early seventies, a research project was set up at Columbia University in New York to determine whether apes are capable of any human form of communication. The film shows the sometimes comical, but above all astonishing story of this attempt to make a man out of an ape. After the film, there will be a talk with Stijn Bruers on animal rights, etc.

In Toestand a woman (Kristien De Proost) takes a good look at herself. She analyses herself with detachment and reveals herself in all sincerity to her audience. She promises to be objective and to confine herself to the facts. External features can be verified. But is this not an illusion? Doesn’t the truth lie precisely in what she does not reveal?

The philosopher Vinciane Despret asks 26 intriguing and pertinent questions about what animals do, want and ‘think’. This yields marvellous and sometimes hilarious stories, told by scientists, animal-tamers, zookeepers, etc. Stories that make us think. We are screening two short documentaries made in 2005 by film-maker and activist Didier Demorcy, to which Vinciane Despret also contributed, one on sheep, one on wolves.