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A DAY IS A HUNDRED YEARS

Jozef Wouters
Thu 27.02.2025 - Sat 01.03.2025
27.02.2025
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01.03.2025

Scenographer and theatre maker Jozef Wouters (INFINI-1-15) always responds to a built reality.

In A Day is a Hundred Years he interweaves the story of Decoratelier, his workspace in Brussels, with that of its janitor Barry Ahmad Talib, an artist from Sagale (Guinea). Jozef has shared his atelier with Barry since 2019. For A Day is a Hundred Years, he also shared his work by cutting thousands of leaves out of fabric for Barry’s tree sculptures. During this patient and time-consuming activity, their conversations created a kind of fusion between Sagale and Brussels. A place that is neither here nor there, but somewhere in between. 

Placing the façade of Decoratelier front and center, A Day is a Hundred Years dramatizes the mediation between open and closed, private and public, that plays a vital role in our urban interactions. By combining traditional theatrical techniques, such as perspectivist illusions, with a turning stage and a cast composed mostly of technicians, a space is formed that allows the perspective to shift constantly. In this shifting gaze, the piece spins out into an urban design plan in the form of a simple fable. 

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TEKST, REGIE & SCENOGRAFIE / TEXTE, MISE EN SCÈNE, SCÈNOGRAPHIE / TEXT, DIRECTION & SCENOGRAPHY Jozef Wouters ARTISTIEKE MEDEWERKERS / COLLABORATEURS ARTISTIQUES / ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS Barry Ahmad Talib, Michiel Soete PERFORMANCE Barry Ahmad Talib, Maya Dhondt GECREËERD IN SAMENWERKING MET / CRÉE EN COLLABORATION AVEC / CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH Micha Goldberg, Naomi Lilith Quashie, Kamal Tall LICHTONTWERP & MUZIKALE COMPOSITIE / CONCEPTION LUMIÈRE / LIGHT DESIGN & MUSIC COMPOSITION Michiel Soete DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY (CREATION 2023) Bryana Fritz DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY (REMAKE 2025) Sodja Lotker KOSTUUMONTWERP / CONCEPTION DE COSTUMES / COSTUME DESIGN Lila John INSIDE EYE Enzo Smits TECHNISCHE DIRECTEUR / DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE / TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Menno Vandevelde GEBOUWD DOOR / CONSTRUIT PAR / BUILT BY Decoratelier, Brussels (Builders: Jamy Hollebeke, Willem Rys, Jan Rymenants, Remco Wuyts, Vic Van den Bossche) GELUID / SON / SOUND Wout Clarysse LICHT / LUMIÈRE / LIGHT Sarah Feyen STAGE Tom De Langhe PRODUCTIEMANAGEMENT / DIRECTION DE LA PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Vincent Focquet, Michiel Soete en Marie Umuhoza STAGIAIRS / STAGIAIR(E)S / INTERNS Sophie Bax, Chloé Tempelhof, Freek Willems PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION Damaged Goods CO-PRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION Toneelhuis (Antwerp), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Perpodium MET DE STEUN VAN / AVEC LE SUPPORT DE / WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Flemish Government, the Flemish Community Commission and the tax shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government via BNPPFFF MET DANK AAN / REMERCIEMENTS À / MANY THANKS TO Kaaitheater, DE SINGEL