The FC Bergman collective made 300 el x 50 el x 30 el for the 2011 Antwerpse Kleppers festival in the space of just one month.
The wordless production spent five years on tour in Greece, France, Germany, Austria, UK and the Netherlands and is now back at the Bourla theatre.
A village that is gripped by the fear of an imminent flood. What happens inside the houses is shown on a large screen. Theatre and film are spectacularly interwoven. With a number of prominent guest actors, eighty extras and an entire village on stage. An experience, a trip.
Unnerving, eccentric and funny, 300 el x 50 el x 30 el clearly shows why FC Bergman has acquired such a good reputation in a very short space of time.
"The images are impressive and beautiful. A sense of unease descends upon the auditorium, settling here and there in the form of goose pimples or hairs standing up on the back of your neck. There is often a great deal of laughter, too, triggered by the absurdity and audacity of a series of very able guest actors."
"Theatre of the appetite that knows no bounds. (…) FC Bergman is a bunch of show-offs. At the invitation of Toneelhuis, they made a brand-new play for the Antwerpse Kleppers festival and they did it in just one month. (…) David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Martin Mc Donagh, Roy Andersson, the associative imagination, the cinematic surprise shoot into action seat by seat. As does the trolley-mounted camera. In a continuous circular movement it reveals the inside of six miserable hovels where slices of life are served up. In the undergrowth pointless movement. A live event takes shape, a visual spectacle unfolds."
"A bombardment of wordless images which compound into a sinister play about a community in the grip of a secret fear."
Credits
by and with
- Bart Hollanders
- Joé Agemans
- Marie Vinck
- Thomas Verstraeten
- Matteo Simoni
- Stef Aerts
guests
- Wim Verachtert
- Gert Portael
- Herwig Ilegems
- Shana Van Looveren
- Cas Slachmuylders
- Evelien Bosmans
- Julia Akkermans
- Bien De Moor
- Gert Winckelmans
- Ramona Verkerk
- Arne Focketeyn
- Greg Timmermans
- Luc Agemans
- Oscar Van Rompay
- Matthieu Sys
- Karen Vanparys
- Mo Bakker
- John Bogaerts
- e.a.
set
- FC Bergman
- e.a.
costume design
- Judith Van Herck
production
- FC Bergman
- Toneelhuis
executive producer
- Toneelhuis
