With English and Hungarian subtitles, including some Flemish words translated into Hungarian.
The theatre of Philippe Quesne is grafted on common rituals of contemporary life, altering these on stage into small ceremonies, both derisory and playful, but extremely symptomatic of the shortcomings of our society.
The Paris-based director compares his work to a series of entomological studies in which we might watch human beings evolving, as if under a microscope. In Next Day, as in his previous plays as La Mélancolie des Dragons, Big Bang and Swamp Club, Quesne will again take us to a human microcosm with uncertain boundaries, mixing dream and reality, music and languages, loneliness and the group. Only this time with thirteen kids on stage, ages of 8 to 12.
By converting everyday occurrences into small dramatic rituals, Quesne transforms the normal world of children into a totally new, alienating and breath-taking universe.
By: Philippe Quesne
With: Marthe Bollaert, Tijl De Bleecker, Mona De Broe, Sven Delbaer, Fons Dhaenens, Lisa Gythiel, Lars Nevejans, Flo Pauwels, Sien Tillmans, Camiel Vanden Eynde, Lizzi Van de Vyver, Ona-Lisa Van Haver, Jaco Win Mei Van Robays
Artistic collaboration: Pol Heyvaert & Léo Gobin
Production assistance: Phéline Thierens
Technical direction: Philippe Digneffe
Technique: Bart Huybrechts
Production: CAMPO, Ghent
Co-production: Theater Der Welt 2014, Mannheim; Festival d'Automne à Paris / Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; LIFT, London; La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
With the support of: Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen & HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
The theatre of Philippe Quesne is grafted on common rituals of contemporary life, altering these on stage into small ceremonies, both derisory and playful, but extremely symptomatic of the shortcomings of our society.The Paris-based director compares his work to a series of entomological studies in which we might watch human beings evolving, as if under a microscope. In Next Day, as in his previous plays as La Mélancolie des Dragons, Big Bang and Swamp Club, Quesne will again take us to a human microcosm with uncertain boundaries, mixing dream and reality, music and languages, loneliness and the group. Only this time with thirteen kids on stage, ages of 8 to 12.
By converting everyday occurrences into small dramatic rituals, Quesne transforms the normal world of children into a totally new, alienating and breath-taking universe.
By: Philippe Quesne
With: Marthe Bollaert, Tijl De Bleecker, Mona De Broe, Sven Delbaer, Fons Dhaenens, Lisa Gythiel, Lars Nevejans, Flo Pauwels, Sien Tillmans, Camiel Vanden Eynde, Lizzi Van de Vyver, Ona-Lisa Van Haver, Jaco Win Mei Van Robays
Artistic collaboration: Pol Heyvaert & Léo Gobin
Production assistance: Phéline Thierens
Technical direction: Philippe Digneffe
Technique: Bart Huybrechts
Production: CAMPO, Ghent
Co-production: Theater Der Welt 2014, Mannheim; Festival d'Automne à Paris / Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; LIFT, London; La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
With the support of: Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen & HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
