Grensgeval
Capitalist society in therapy
Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek wrote Die Schutzbefohlenen in 2013 as a reaction to the increasingly desperate refugee problem in Europe. Jelinek regards refugees as pivotal figures when it comes to reviewing the situation in today’s Europe and to discussing norms and values, the role of religion and political responsibility. Alluding to Aeschylus’ classical play The Supplicants, she gives asylum seekers a voice and with her sharp writing mercilessly lays bare the cynicism and latent racism in European politics.
Her text has proved to be more than prophetic: all the images that are now burnt into our memories – from the washed up corpses of children to sinister refrigerated vehicles – she minutely calls to life years before the actual events. The main character in Jelinek’s pieces seems to be language itself. She is less interested in classical dialogue than in the chorus texts and messages delivered by messengers that she finds in Greek tragedy. The perspective is mostly that of the refugee, but sometimes also that of the fearful white European. Guy Cassiers matches Jelinek’s torrent of words with images and with four dancers in a choreography by Maud Le Pladec.
• Director Guy Cassiers from Antwerp’s Toneelhuis throws himself into a diptych about the problems surrounding migration. Next season, he will be pitting Het kleine meisje van meneer Linh (Monsieur Linh and His Child), based on Philippe Claudel’s poetically understated novel.
regie Guy Cassiers | tekst naar Die Schutzbefohlenen van Elfriede Jelinek | vertaling Tom Kleijn | dramaturgie Dina Dooreman/Erwin Jans | met Abke Haring/Sanne Samina Hanssen, Katelijne Damen, Han Kerckhoffs | dansers Samuel Baidoo, Machias Bosschaerts, Pieter Desmet, Sarah Fife, Berta Fornell Serrat, Julia Godina Llorens, Aki Iwamoto, Daan Jaarsveld, Levente Lukacs, Hernan Manchebo Marnez, Alexa Moya Panksep, Marcus Alexander Roydes, Meike Stevens, Pauline Van Nuffel, Sandrine Wouters, Bianca Zueneli | choreografie Maud Le Pladec | scenografie & kostuumontwerp Tim Van Steenbergen | video-ontwerp Frederik Jassogne (Hangaar) | geluidsontwerp Diederik De Cock | lichtontwerp Fabiana Piccioli | productie Toneelhuis | co-productie Le Phénix, Scène nationale de Valenciennes (FR), CCNO ‐ Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (FR), La Filature ‐ Scène nationale de Mulhouse (FR), Festival d'Avignon (FR), CDN Orléans (FR), Scène nationale d'Orléans (FR) | in samenwerking met Bachelor dans Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen AP Hogeschool, CNSMD Lyon
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