This season the UCL is setting up three NightShops at the Kaaitheater: these are debates on the topic of conflict. The second episode is about human behaviour in conflict situations: from resistance and human solidarity to extreme violence and barbarism.

There are quite a few yawning gaps these days: that between those with wealth and those without, between those who are on board and those who are excluded, between the salary of the CEO and that of the worker, etc. A debate on a pressing issue, involving several specialists and taking as its motto ‘Change the world, it needs it’ (Bertolt Brecht).

The French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane has created a ‘sfumato’ choreography in which the scenes flow into one another and the boundaries of the bodies appear to dissolve. The dancers evolve in a landscape of mist and rain. The choreography is a metaphor for the loss of habitats, the exile to unknown places, the memory that remains..

In Schiller’s drama Maria Stuart, two legendary queens from European history are at each other’s throats: Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart of Scotland. Behind the masks of political power stand two women of flesh and blood. Ivo Van Hove directs a ten-member cast, drawn from the companies of Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Toneelhuis.

The Great War by Hotel Modern may be performed in a theatre, but you feel like you’re on a miniature film set. Composer Arthur Sauer creates the live ‘sound effects’ and the soundtrack for the haunting images. - cancelled due to planning problems.