Nachten

NACHTEN / Ballet de la Nuit

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

2019
 

Everybody becomes everybody in the vanishing light. The eponymous twelve-hour Ballet de la Nuit at the court of King Louis XIV from 1653 is seized upon in an extravagant attempt to fight evil. In the operatic ballet, the landscape of the night is danced and sung. Full of entrées and intermezzos, the night is divided into four parts in which different types meet in a polymorphic event. All the roles are played by the costume designer, composer, dramaturge and one actor. In a mixture of seriousness and fun, praise and satire, mythology and contemporary politics, this performance, reduced to one hour, turns all sunkings into jesters. One of Meirhaeghe's debut performances.

 

Credits

concept, director

BENJAMIN ABEL MEIRHAEGHE

 

performance

ARNE LUITING

LOUISE VAN DEN EEDE

LAURENS MARIËN

SIETSKE VAN AERDE

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text

LOUISE VAN DEN EEDE

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costume design

SIETSKE VAN AERDE

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music

LAURENS MARIËN

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‍technical leading

ANNE VAN ES

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production

RUTH SAERENS

 

producer

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

 

coproductie

MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT

 

in collaboration with

TONEELHUIS

 

thanks to

LUKAS SMOLDERS

ELSEMIEKE SCHOLTE