Belgian rules / Belgium Rules
Jan Fabre / Troubleyn {Antwerp}
Born of dramatic events and sewn of grey skies, trilingual, royal, and federal, Belgium is a brave people proud of their lack of pride. Riddled with bureaucracy, this country-confetti is full of facetious subversives and peaceful anarchists. Seldom fond of unsavoury sires haunting palaces and studies, they corner rules and protocol by impaling their ridicule. The Belgian indulges in life. He eats, he drinks and enjoys the potbelly he earns as a result. Radically ironic by denomination, with compromise as his banner, he decorates gardens and cemeteries with legendary hideousness. He indulges in football and loves the carnival. Celebration serves as the antidote to all the woes that burden him. The Antwerp iconoclast Jan Fabre, deploys his protean art in an ode to his complex and wacky country. The sewing workshops of the Theatre of Liège have made the incredible super distribution battalion costumes that the of this hilarious fresco is donning.
Concept et mise en scène Jan Fabre
Texte Johan de Boose
Interprétation Annabelle Chambon, Cédric Charron, Tabitha Cholet, Anny Czupper, Conor Thomas Doherty, Stella Höttler, Ivana Jozic, Gustav Koenigs, Mariateresa Notarangelo, Çigdem Polat, Annabel Reid, Merel Severs, Ursel Tilk, Kasper Vandenberghe, Andrew James Van Ostade
Musique Raymond van het Groenewoud (Belgian Rules en Vlaanderen Boven/Wallonie d’abord) et Andrew Van Ostade (autres compositions)
Dramaturgie Miet Martens
Assistante à la dramaturgie Edith Cassiers
Costumes Kasia Mielczarek, Jonne Sikkema
Réalisation des costumes Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège
Technicien en chef André Schneider
Technique Wout Janssens
Stagiaire assistante à la mise en scène Nina Certyn
Stagiaire P.U.L.S. Timeau De Keyser Stagaire
Stagiaire costume Monika Nyckowska
Chargé de production Sebastiaan Peeters
Régisseur lumière Wout Janssens
Régisseurs plateau Randy Thielemans, Kevin Deckers
Régisseur son Howard Deckers
Production Troubleyn/Jan Fabre
Coproduction ImpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival, Théâtre de Liège, Concertgebouw Brugge