A Revue

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
2020

 

In a Revue, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe stages a retro-futuristic cabaret with scifi allure. We are in the year 4020, a year where only the sound of the earth falling down in crumbling dust can be heard, the year when aliens, androids and half-humans will find scores under the roots of the last remaining ancient trees. Totally puzzled but uplifted by cluelessness, they decide to have a cabaret evening with what they have found. What does the ancient music of the future sound like? How will they interpret the fragments and broken bits of the past? And are opera and ballet a faint memory or a final straw in the search for lost emotions? Meirhaeghe explores these and other questions with a hybrid cast of 17 singers, instrumentalists, producers, performers dancers and visual artists. They take the audience through an intriguing world where time is dissolved and all genre and gender divides fall. Like future earthlings, they dig into the past, groping for the raw power of voice and body. The theater becomes a time machine — as nostalgic as it is revolutionary.

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Credits

concept, regie
BENJAMIN ABEL MEIRHAEGHE

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met
ELLEN WILS
MARIBETH DIGGLE
ARNOUT LEMS
DOLLY BING BING
SIMON VAN SCHUYLENBERGH
JELLE HAEN
BJORN FLOREAL
ORIANA MANGALA
ADRIEN DE BIASI
EURUDIKE DE BEUL
LIONEL COUCHARD

SOPHIA RODRIGUEZ

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tekst en dramaturgie
LOUISE VAN DEN EEDE

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muziekdramaturgie
KATHERINA LINDEKENS

LENA MEYSKENS

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geluidsontwerp en compositie
LAURENS MARIËN

JASPER SEGERS

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piano

MAYA DHONDT

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scenografie
BART VAN MERODE

JULIAN WEBER

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assistentie scenografie

ZAZA DUPONT

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lichtontwerp
BART VAN MERODE
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beeldende kunstenaars
JULIAN WEBER

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kostuums
DAAN COUZIJN
BENJAMIN ABEL MEIRHAEGHE
JULIAN WEBER

SIETSKE VAN AERDE

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make-up

JELLE HAEN

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diffusie

ART HAPPENS

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productie

D E T H E A T E R M A K E R

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coproductie
DE SINGELOPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN
LOD MUZIEKTHEATER THEATER ROTTERDAM

VIER NUL VIER

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uitvoerend producent

TONEELHUIS met de steun van
DE VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAP met dank aan
CAMPOLES BALLETS C DE LA BE.A.