THUG’s out there! Who’s the greatest? Who’s the baddest? Who’s Tupac? Bring on your A-game for this talent show in search of the next Makaveli! Four candidates, one MC and for two hours “all eyez on you”.
Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s your turn to spin it. This talent show features four young people who are desperate to make it. In a competition that balances between heaven and hell, they go all out … with only one goal in mind: becoming the next Tupac.
Tupac, legendary hip-hop star, who has been dead for as long as he lived by now. The man whose mother gave him the name Tupac Amaru Shakur in honour of Túpac Amaru II, the revolutionary leader of a legendary Inca uprising in the 18th century, and one of the first liberators of the Americas. Túpac Amaru II fought for his nation and his people, just like Tupac fought for equality.
His name would become a cornerstone of Tupac Shakur’s destiny. He started his rap career as a rebel with a cause and decried the injustices suffered by African Americans in his songs. He certainly didn’t have a clean slate. He worked himself up from the gutter and had a few altercations with law enforcement in the process. Like Túpac Amaru II, he got so deeply involved in his battle that it became his demise: in ’96 he was killed in a drive-by shooting, a murder that remains unsolved to this day. But Tupac’s struggle lives on: he was not just a representative of his generation, he is still a symbol of the fight for equality for current generations.
Theatre collective Jr.cE.sA.r creates an intimate and powerful musical performance inspired by rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur. After Rumble in da Jungle, Malcolm X and Dear Winnie, they bring to life the legacy of another controversial figure.
Tupac, legendary hip-hop star, who has been dead for as long as he lived by now. The man whose mother gave him the name Tupac Amaru Shakur in honour of Túpac Amaru II, the revolutionary leader of a legendary Inca uprising in the 18th century, and one of the first liberators of the Americas. Túpac Amaru II fought for his nation and his people, just like Tupac fought for equality.
His name would become a cornerstone of Tupac Shakur’s destiny. He started his rap career as a rebel with a cause and decried the injustices suffered by African Americans in his songs. He certainly didn’t have a clean slate. He worked himself up from the gutter and had a few altercations with law enforcement in the process. Like Túpac Amaru II, he got so deeply involved in his battle that it became his demise: in ’96 he was killed in a drive-by shooting, a murder that remains unsolved to this day. But Tupac’s struggle lives on: he was not just a representative of his generation, he is still a symbol of the fight for equality for current generations.
Theatre collective Jr.cE.sA.r creates an intimate and powerful musical performance inspired by rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur. After Rumble in da Jungle, Malcolm X and Dear Winnie, they bring to life the legacy of another controversial figure.
by
- Jr.cE.sA.r
text
- Fikry El Azzouzi
director
- Junior Mthombeni
with
- Andie Dushime
- Junior Akwety
- Alex Akuete
- Zediam
- Cindy Claes
music installation and direction
- Cesar Janssens
soundtrack
- Cesar Janssens
costume design
- Lieve Pynoo
set and light design
- Stef Stessel
movement
- Lisi Estaras
- Quan Bui Ngoc
dramaturgy
- Gerardo Salinas
- Robbert Van Heuven
outside eye
- Younes van den Broeck
inside eye
- Junior Akwety
- Alex Akuete
directing assistance
- Irina Reinke
design and implementation of sound installation
- Ralf Nonn
- Cesar Janssens
production management
- Tanja Vrancken
technical production
- Nele Druyts
light
- Margareta Andersen
sound
- Patrick Van Neck
- Johannes Bellinck
machinery
- Christophe Geens
- Ralf Nonn
dresser
- Heidi Ehrhart
surtitles
- Inge Floré
translation
- Alex Stockman
- Trevor Perri
- Anne Vanderscheuren
translation and voice
- Amiel Cayo
dispersion
- Saskia Liénard
production
- KVS
coproduction
- Perpodium
- NNT
with the support of
- Tax Shelter maatregel v/d Belgische Federale Overheid