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Oorlog en terpentijn

Jan Lauwers, Toneelhuis, Needcompany

Jan Lauwers is making a stage adaptation of Stefan Hertmans’ compelling epic War and turpentine. 

"Secret passion, secret teachings that teach us nothing. Loyalty to an absence that shaped everything, giving it form and secret meaning. What mattered most to him was something he could not share with others. So he painted trees, clouds, peacocks, the Ostend beach, a poultry yard, still lifes on half-cleared tables – an immense, silent, devoted labour of grief, to put the world’s weeping to rest in the most everyday things." - Stefan Hertmans 

Jan Lauwers is a storyteller and image-maker who is acclaimed around the world for his human form of theatre. Through Hertmans' story he'll create a whirling performance around Viviane De Muynck and the Needcompany ensemble, on a composition by Rombout Willems, performed by Alain Franco, Simon Lenski et George Van Dam.

director

  • Jan Lauwers

adaptation

  • Jan Lauwers

script based on

  • Stefan Hertmans

with

  • Viviane De Muynck
  • Melissa Guerin
  • George Van Dam
  • Alain Franco
  • Sarah Lutz
  • Maarten Seghers
  • Grace Ellen Barkey
  • Elik Niv
  • Simon Lenski
  • Mohamed Toukabri
  • Benoît Gob

music

  • Rombout Willems

costume design

  • Lot Lemm

dramaturgy

  • Elke Janssens

P.U.L.S. intern

  • Bosse Provoost

production

  • Needcompany

coproduction

  • Festival De Marseille
  • Provincie West-Vlaanderen
  • Toneelhuis

with the support of

  • de Vlaamse Overheid

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