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JOSSE DE PAUW / MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT
Escorial is a tragic farce on the subject of power and boredom, violence and indifference.
 
from 10 Sep
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BRUNO VANDEN BROECKE & WIM HELSEN / KVS
Riotous comedy meets delicate theatre.
 
from 14 Sep
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JOËL POMMERAT
La grande et fabuleuse histoire du commerce is vintage Pommerat: a powerful and highly topical play, soberly directed and with very sound actors.
 
from 01 Oct
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KVS & PEEPING TOM
A parallel universe of memories, visions of the future, fears, dreams and nightmares constantly affects reality. In a world where everything can be hired, all the solid ground is swept away from beneath our feet. This sounds like life itself.
 
from 02 Oct
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Raoul Collectif
Why would anyone put themselves strictly outside society?
 
02 Oct 2013, 20:30
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JOSSE DE PAUW & KRIS DEFOORT
A piece about wanting to live at all costs.
 
from 03 Oct
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FUMIYO IKEDA, ALAIN PLATEL, BENJAMIN VERDONCK, STIJN VAN OPSTAL / KVS & ROSAS
Without doubt one of the most unsettling theatre events of 2007!
 
from 04 Oct
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Raven Ruëll, Bruno Vanden Broecke / David Van Reybrouck / KVS
Author David Van Reybrouck wrote this much-praised monologue based on dozens of interviews with missionaries from the Congo.
 
from 05 Oct
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VINCENT HENNEBICQ
The first work created by a young director, put together like a real rock concert, giving a bittersweet response to the question of whether we can be the heroes of our own existence.
 
from 06 Oct
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FABRICE MURGIA
A family history, an autobiography. Intimate and yet still a grand gesture. Both personal and for a broad public.
 
from 07 Oct
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Thomas Gunzig, Manu Riche & Josse De Pauw / KVS & Théâtre National
Thomas Gunzig writes a new play for the stage, inspired by the football coach Raymond Goethals. It is directed by the film and documentary maker Manu Riche and the actor is Josse De Pauw!
 
from 09 Oct
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ASCANIO CELESTINI & DAVID MURGIA
David Murgia, a mere lad but already a theatre and cinema phenomenon on the other side of the language border, addresses the nation.
 
12 Oct 2013, 20:30
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Tom Lanoye / KVS & Behoud De Begeerte
Sprakeloos op de planken (La Langue de ma mère sr scène) is a powerful monologue Lanoye has distilled from this book and which he, a veteran performer, will present on stage himself.
 
from 02 Nov
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JOHAN HELDENBERGH / COMPAGNIE CECILIA
These three women’s lives intersect in Giovanni’s ice-cream parlour, a bleak place full of fake plastic vintage, where the whipped cream is served from a can.
 
from 06 Nov
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BENJAMIN VERDONCK / KVS & TONEELHUIS
In this performance Verdonck takes a different approach: ‘In recent years my work consisted of exercises in wildly lashing out. I often explicitly sought ways to relate my work to what was happening around me.’
 
from 13 Nov
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GUY DERMUL & THOMAS GUNZIG / KVS
In his blazing pamphlet Het lelijkste land ter wereld (The Ugliest Country in the World) (1968) architect Renaat Braem (1910 - 2001) shows a day in the life of a Flemish family. Everything goes wrong..
 
from 20 Nov
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KVS & TRISTERO
A Map of the World is about opposing views, how the West and the Third World see each other, and about how various journalists and writers handle fact and fiction.
 
from 07 Dec
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WOUTER DEPREZ
After a retreat in South Africa – the breeding ground for Radio Plettenberg, his brilliant series of radio shows – Wouter Deprez is ready at last to share his thoughts.
 
from 11 Jan
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GUY DERMUL & PIERRE SARTENAER / THÉÂTRE LES TANNEURS & KVS
Theatre directors and actors Guy Dermul and Pierre Sartenaer go in search of the works and roots of Dutch artist, director, writer and performer Willem Kroon.
 
from 05 Feb
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SEBASTIAN NÜBLING / KVS, NO99 TALLINN & MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE
 
from 07 Feb
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THOMAS BELLINCK & JEROEN VANDER VEN / KVS & STEIGEISEN
Starting with the controversial figure of Robespierre, for De Onkreukelbare (‘The Unrufflable One’) Steigeisen have immersed themselves in the customs, celebrations and rituals of the French Revolution.
 
from 21 Feb
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BART MEULEMAN / TONEELHUIS
Through his protagonist’s crisis, Hugo Claus guides us through the bleakest pages of the Flemish Movement.
 
from 26 Feb
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Simon Allemeersch, Barbara Claes & Stefanie Claes / SILENCE FINI & DE WERF
Inspired by the legend of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, these three create a strange world.
 
from 12 Mar
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KVS & WUNDERBAUM
Wunderbaum and the KVS are producing a play about nets and meshes, about rules and interpretations, about influence and impotence.
 
from 14 Mar
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PETER VERHELST & oscar van rompay / NTGENT
The author Peter Verhelst wrote the monologue Africa with and for the actor Oscar Van Rompay.
 
from 10 Apr
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GUY DERMUL, ELVIS PEETERS, KAAT DE WINDT / KVS
Performing artists from 8 theatres on four continents will examine the food crisis and rising food prices together with several academics.
 
from 23 Apr
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BRETT BAILEY / Third World Bunfight, KVS, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, e.a.
For this contemporary adaptation of Verdi’s opera Macbeth he is collaborating with the Brussels composer Fabrizio Cassol.
 
01 May 2014, 20:00
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BENJAMIN VERDONCK / KVS & TONEELHUIS
"I want to make a table-top theatre, a big puppet theatre. I can picture it perfectly: cardboard triangles, white boats, snow, lots of strings, hand-coloured backgrounds, a toy piano and a real dog.", Benjamin Verdonck
 
01 May 2014, 20:30
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KVS
The KVS created new work in the city throughout the 2012-13 season. We shall be taking the next step in June 2014.
 
01 Jun 2014
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KVS
The KVS makes time and room for young theatre-makers with the ambition of creating works for the large stage.
 
from 19 Jun
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SERGE KAKUDJI, FABRIZIO CASSOL & ALAIN PLATEL / KVS & LES BALLETS C DE LA B
 
01 Oct 2014
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NEWS

KVS in The Guardian


Read the article about 'DOMO DE EUROPA HISTORIO EN EKZILO' by Thomas Bellinck.

DOMO DE EUROPA HISTORIO EN EKZILO prolonged!

Extra opening dates in September!
weekdays:  11:00 > 18:00
Sep 4, 5 & 6 - as part of Theaterfestival 2013
weekends: 11:00 > 18:00
Sep 7 & 8 - as part of Theaterfestival 2013
Sep 14 & 15 
Sep 21 & 22 
Sep 28 & 29 
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Guy Verhofstadt and The Guardian impressed by DOMO DE EUROPA HISTORIO EN EKZILO!

KVS_ Repertoire: 10 years of outstanding work

Reflections by dramaturge Hildegard De Vuyst (KVS)

KVS and its relation to repertoire

On the 4th December a debate took place in KVS on repertoire in theatre, with guest speakers Guy Cassiers, Faustin Linyekula and Amir Nizar Zuabi. As an introduction Jan Goossens, artistic director of KVS, wrote the following text