Season 2022-2023

What happens when you transfer Wuthering Heights to the lowlands around Barcelona?

In our times, there are few horrors unheard of and unimaginable. The crimes ISIS committed against the Yazidi women in North Iraq are among them. Certain demons, you have to slaughter from within. In Licht, director Tea Tupajić invites the Yazidi women to descend into themselves to try just that.

Welcome to Mount Average. In this performative tour, Julian Hetzel takes us on a factory visit that confronts us with our own ideologies. The theatre creator grinds statues of rulers, dictators and tyrants into pulp in order to give them a new, meaningful purpose. 

What happens to us, if everything that makes our lives bearable turns out to be a lie?
What if we no longer know where we belong?
What if it feels like we are slowly disappearing into mist? Like ghosts …

Moving Meditations is a multidisciplinary creation about healing, an independent and collective process of alchemy that arises from experiences. Through disciplines including contemporary dance, stepping and singing, choreographer Briana Ashley Stuart examines the importance of movement and sound as fundamental elements of human expression.

Mimi’s Shebeen is a new poetic dance theatre production by KVS face and artist Alesandra Seutin. Through dance, poetry, singing and music, Seutin takes the audience into the depths of a deconstructed shebeen* and on a journey full of life: of struggle, perseverance and determination.

After Michael Disanka had finished writing his theatre text À demain ma mort, about resistance fighters in recent history in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he wondered how come he had only talked about men. Were there no heroines in this story? 

Director and theatre creator Lisaboa Houbrechts writes and directs a family epic that spans three generations. She looks back at the lifetimes of her grandparents, her parents, and her own generation.

With A in the role of B, when C didn’t make it, choreographer, performer and theatre creator Ehsan Hemat has come up with a concept in which various generations meet on stage. 

For Jaouad Alloul, the provocation for this performance was the moment when a Member of the European Parliament with an anti-LGBT agenda was caught – mid-lockdown – at a sex party for gay men. It uncovered a level of hypocrisy and power abuse that needs to end urgently. Venus in Libra is a manifesto, a dialogue, a radical act of resistance against everything conservative.

About ten seconds, that’s all the time an average museum visitor has for a work of art. In 11 Seconds, Charlotte Bouckaert joins her audience to look at one single picture for the entire duration of the performance: a photo of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

No time has passed in a hundred years: feelings of impending doom, exhaustion from the speed of technical development, hopelessness. 

A repertory play could not be more topical: the environmental scandals close to home, the manipulative mechanisms of political decision-making, the struggles of whistle-blowers... Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People analyses it all. But his wry comedy also shows the personal consequences of fighting for one's ideals

After a fatal accident in the city of Kinshasa Esdras, Chadrak, Lydienne and Kadogo find themselves in a dusty waiting room. Stuck between two worlds, they are confronted with their past. At desperate speed, they search for a way to break free before their human consciousness is completely extinguished.

A tragedy set to techno and trap. A theatrical bacchanal. Lanoye’s Atropa the way it was meant to be: a linguistic celebration set to music, in honour of contemporary gods.