Eurothalia

20–30.09.2023 - See you in autumn!

The Blind Poet

The Blind Poet

Stage direction and set design: Jan Lauwers —Production: Needcompany (Belgium)

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Production Needcompany (Belgium)Coproduction Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, FIBA - Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

Stage direction and set design Jan LauwersMusic Maarten Seghers

With Grace Ellen Barkey, Jules Beckman, Anna Sophie Bonnema, Hans Petter Melø Dahl, Benoît Gob, Maarten Seghers, Mohamed Toukabri, Elke Janssens, Jan Lauwers

Costumes Lot Lemm

Costumes Mohamed Bachir bin Ahmed bin Rhaïem El Toukabri

Dramaturgy & surtitles Elke Janssens

Light-design Marjolein Demey, Jan Lauwers

Sound design Ditten Lerooij

Technique & production Marjolein Demey, Kurt Bethuyne

Performance in English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Tunisian and Arab with German and Romanian translations.

Jan Lauwers starts out from …

Production Needcompany (Belgium)Coproduction Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, FIBA - Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

Stage direction and set design Jan LauwersMusic Maarten Seghers

With Grace Ellen Barkey, Jules Beckman, Anna Sophie Bonnema, Hans Petter Melø Dahl, Benoît Gob, Maarten Seghers, Mohamed Toukabri, Elke Janssens, Jan Lauwers

Costumes Lot Lemm

Costumes Mohamed Bachir bin Ahmed bin Rhaïem El Toukabri

Dramaturgy & surtitles Elke Janssens

Light-design Marjolein Demey, Jan Lauwers

Sound design Ditten Lerooij

Technique & production Marjolein Demey, Kurt Bethuyne

Performance in English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Tunisian and Arab with German and Romanian translations.

Jan Lauwers starts out from the performers' family trees and is writing a new story based on their various nationalities, cultures and languages. He goes back a thousand years to ponder the notion of identity in today's multicultural Europe. Lauwers quotes the work of Abu al 'ala al Ma'arri, a blind Arab poet who spanned the 10th and 11th centuries, and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, an Andalusian poet from the 11th century. Their work describes a time in which women held positions of power and atheism was commonplace, when Paris was just a small provincial town and Charlemagne was a famous illiterate. History is written by the victors. By men. How much has the history we know actually been determined by lies, chance encounters and events along the way? 

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