Theatre maker Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe tackles Claudio Monteverdi with the support of Doon Kanda. At the end of his life the prince of late Italian Renaissance music composed his vibrant Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi. Meirhaeghe moulds these sparkling vocal works about war and love into a cry for freedom fuelled by passion and a fighting spirit. With the Ancient Greeks in mind, he creates a contemporary and uninhibited orgy, in which the boundaries between the human and the divine are blurred. For Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, theatre is a crossroads in time: a time machine in the midst of the present in which distant pasts and futures, genesis and utopia, merge into a radical new narrative with a corresponding timbre and cast. Beyond the distinction between insider and outsider, 'MADRIGALS' presents a community brimming with uniqueness and talent in which conservative dogmas and stigmas yield to sexuality and release.
- Concept & Director
- Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
- Musical director & co-composer
- Wouter Deltour
- Dramaturgy & Research
- Louise Van den Eede
- Scenography & Lightdesign
-
Zaza Dupont
Bart Van Merode
- Production manager
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Anne Van Es
- Co-curator Artworks
- Koi Persyn
- Choreography in collaboration with the performers
- Sophia Rodriguez
- Musical coaching
- Pieter Theuns
- Voice coaching
- Rosanne Groenendijk
- Shibari coaching
- Marc Beshibari
- Musicians/quartet
-
Madoka Nakamaru
Wouter Deltour
Pieter Theuns
Rebecca Huber
- Costumes
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Kasia Mielczarek
- Teaser and making off
- Charles Dhondt
- Photography cave
- Thibaut Lampe
- Webdesign
- Studio.dier
- Technical assistance
-
Peter Quasters
Anne Van Es
- Production Assistent
- Pablo González
- Intern Director-assistent
- Ika Schwanders
- Distribution
- ART HAPPENS