The mist hangs in thick banks over the vegetation. In the dim light we see time slip by. Something shoots past the plants and disappears again. The mist thickens and fills the forest with a dense blanket of cloud until all that is left is a solid, white mass. Lost, he steps through this smog, groping his way through the wood. The wood creaks and whispers. He wades through the ferns and cautiously calls a name. It sounds like: “Vos!” and “Vos?” - “Fox!” and “Fox?”. And the ferns whisper with him. And he can barely see a hands-breadth in front of his eyes in the fog which envelops him like a thick blanket.
FC Bergman & Co.’s idiosyncratic adaptation of the epic animal poem Van de vos Reynaerde (On Reynard the Fox) was received as “crazily good theatre”. Liesa Van der Aa and the Berlin genre-crossing Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop composed the music for this music theatre production. Josse De Pauw provided the words. Dirk Roofthooft, Viviane De Muynck and Gregory Frateur appear in the play along with a number of volunteers.
The production has been selected for the Theatre Festival 2014.
A quote from the jury’s report : "This tour de force shows that these young theatre-makers can write their own new and visually arresting chapter in our theatre history. Van den vos is a milestone in their development and oeuvre because here visual splendour and powerful content find the perfect balance.”
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
by and with
- Thomas Verstraeten
- Joé Agemans
- Marie Vinck
- Stef Aerts
- Bart Hollanders
by
- FC Bergman
text
- Josse De Pauw
with
- Viviane De Muynck
- Dirk Roofthooft
- e.a.
actors
- Wim Verachtert
- Bent Simons
- Frederick Bruyninckx
- Cedric Van Den Abbeele
- June Voeten
- Janelle Vanes
- Vicky van Bellingen
extras
- Jan Rottiers
- Guy Willekens
- Emile De Bekker
- Jos De Raedt
- Willy Verbruggen
- Geert Goossens
- Marc Moens
light design
- Ken Hioco
- FC Bergman
sound design
- Alex Fostier
lyrics
- Gregory Frateur
- Craig Ward
musical adaptation
- Liesa Van der Aa
- Kaleidoskop
- Michael Rauter
- Daniella Strasfögel
costume design
- An D'Huys
live music
- Kaleidoskop
sponsors
- Boudewijn Sea Park
- Amadea
- Vranckx
- Floor Gres
- Gavra
- Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
movement advice
- Ken Hioco
production
- Muziektheater Transparant
- Kaleidoskop
- Toneelhuis
with the support of
- programme Culture de l’Union européen
in collaboration with
- Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs
- Kaaitheater
- Operadagen Rotterdam
- Le Phénix, Scène nationale de Valenciennes
- Wiener Festwochen
- Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
