Since 2019 Jozef Wouters has shared his Decoratelier in Brussels with Barry Ahmad Talib, an artist from Sagale (Guinee-Conakry)
During the long winter months, they cut thousands of leaves out of fabric for Barry’s tree sculptures. Out of those sessions, they weave a tissue of stories and sounds, and eventually, a show. Together with a group of builders, musicians, performers and poets they build a world between night and day, temporality and future, visibility and invisibility.
A Day is a Hundred Years is Jozef Wouters’ most personal work to date. With a turning stage and a scenography comprised of various layers, shadows and stories, Jozef and his team create a kind of planetarium within the space of the theatre. An infinitely mutable and negotiable space which trades the central perspective for a multitude of gazes, in which the scenography sees us more than we see it.
text, director & set design
- Jozef Wouters
artistic collaborators
- Michiel Soete
- Barry Ahmad Talib
performance
- Barry Ahmad Talib
- Maya Dhondt
- Micha Goldberg
- Naomi Lilith Quashie
- Kamal Tall
light design & musical composition
- Michiel Soete
dramaturgy
- Bryana Fritz
costume design
- Lila John
technical director
- Menno Vandevelde
built by
- Decoratelier (Brussel)
inside eye
- Enzo Smits
production management
- Vincent Focquet
- Michiel Soete
- Marie Umuhoza
internship
- Chloë Tempel
- Freek Willems
- Sophie Bax
production
- Damaged Goods
coproduction
- Toneelhuis
- Wiener Festwochen
- PACT Zollverein
- Perpodium
with the support of
- de Vlaamse Overheid
- De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
- Tax Shelter maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid