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· Date: 2012
· Genre: Performance
· Cast: Pieter De Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck
· Image: Hans Op de Beeck
· Text & play: Pieter De Buysser
· Light design & technician: Herman Sorgeloos
· Dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven (Kaaitheater)
· Production: Margarita Production
· Coproduction: KunstenfestivaldesArts, Kaaitheater, Festival Baltoscandal (Rakvere) (E), Belluard Bollwerk International (CH), Teater Avant Garden (N), Bit Teatergarasjen (N), Brut Wien (A) - Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. With the support of Koninklijke Bibliotheek België, Göteborgs Dance & Teater Festival, The Flemish Government
· Date and place premiered: 18 may 2012, Kaaitheater, Brussels
· Description: This performance is a joint venture by the artist Hans Op de Beeck and writer-actor Pieter De Buysser. The piece physically links visual art and theatre, with Hans creating an object and Pieter writing a play to perform alongside it. Hans has constructed a chest with hidden cupboards and drawers. Pieter has devised a story featuring Sebastian, an old Wikileaks man surrounded by fluttering moths; his daughter Tilda, who wishes everything would disappear, including herself; a young Indignado called Nobody; and last but not least, the smart narrator Kat Schrödinger. A story that’s part blood-curdling fairytale, part edgy road movie. A story about storing things away and forgetting them, about facts and myths


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photo: Felipe González Cabezas