Miet Warlop (Belgium)
AFTER ALL SPRINGVILLE – DISASTERS AND AMUSEMENT PARKS
A restaging of Miet Warlop’s iconic work after 12 years of its world premiere. With the lightness of a cartoon, the tragic story of a failed community is told, the show is perfect to visit with the whole family.
In it, an explosive narrative unfolds around a colourful-smoking cardboard house, its inhabitants and the neighbourhood: an elegant walking table that would like nothing better than to be set, a man who wants to take out the trash, a frustrated fuse box and a very long pair of pants go through big and small dramas with varying degrees of slapstick and disaster potential. With the lightness of a cartoon, the tragic story of a failed community is told. And because all this could hardly be more topical, Warlop has restaged her iconic work premiere under the title After All Springville.
Miet Warlop is a Belgian visual artist living between Ghent and Brussels. She received a master’s degree in visual arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. In 2004, she won the Jury Prize of the KASK Franciscus Pycke and the Young Theatre award of the Ostend Theater Aan Zee with Huilend Hert. Her reflection about theatre as an artistic form has led to a physical approach where one can find elements reminiscent of her previous plays: the concert as ritual, the effort, the repetition, the objects.
Everything in Miet Warlop’s artistic practice is connected, be it implicitly or explicitly. She sees her work as a cycle, just like life. Her latest production, “One Song”, in collaboration with NTGent Theatre, was chosen by many experts as one of the 10 best stage productions in 2022.
Wed 3.07 20:00 Rakvere Teatri suur maja BUY TICKET
Thu 4.07 15:30 Rakvere Teatri suur maja BUY TICKET
Duration: 45 min
Language no problem
Show for the whole family
Concept and Direction Miet Warlop; Performance Emiel Vandenberghe, Freek De Craecker, Jacobine Tone Kofoed, Jarne Van Loon, Jef Hellemans, Margarida Ramalhete, Margot Masquelier; Costumes Sofie Durnez; Technical Coordination Patrick Vanderhaegen; Technical Crew Bart Van Hoydonck, Eva Dermul, Frieder Naumann, Jurgen Techel, Pieter Kinoli; Production Manager Rossana Miele.
Production: Miet Warlop / Irene Wool vzw; Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin, Arts Centre BUDA, Arts Centre Vooruit, PerPodium (BE), De Studio Antwerpen, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel.
With the support of The Belgian Tax Shelter, Flemish Authorities, City of Ghent
Thanks to: Arts Centre CAMPO, TAZ – Theater Aan Zee & cc De Grote Post, Amotec, Bennert Vancottem, Winston Reynolds, Alexandra Rosser.
