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Para

David Van Reybrouck, Bruno Vanden Broecke, Raven Ruëll & KVS
Fri 09.11.2018 - Fri 20.09.2024
09.11.2018
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20.09.2024

Nine years after the premiere of their internationally acclaimed stage hit Mission, the author David Van Reybrouck, actor and theatre-maker Bruno Vanden Broecke and director Raven Ruëll will be working together once again.

Following the missionary in Mission, in this new monologue David Van Reybrouck gives a soldier the chance to speak. To this end he delves into a forgotten episode in recent history, Belgium’s large-scale military intervention in Somalia in 1992. Van Reybrouck has been ploughing through archives and publications and has interviewed parachute commandos, both officers and men, who took part in the mission.

Para will be neither an indictment nor a panegyric, but will rather examine the complex tragedy of ‘international peace operations’. It is a story of idealism and impotence, noble aims and shady practices.

At the Dutch Theatre Festival 2018 Bruno Vanden Broecke was awarded the Louis d'Or for his performance From the jury report: “In Para, Bruno Vanden Broecke appears to be an actor who becomes his character. He starts the performance timid and clumsy, slowly grabbing the audience mercilessly by the throat.”

'You can put a lot into an empty barrel.'

“Bruno Vanden Broecke is de koning van de monoloog...Dit is niet zomaar een theaterstuk. Nee, het is een evenement van nationaal belang: een oefening in herinneren en empathie.”
De Standaard
"Zinderende, confronterende monoloog."
Dagblad van het Noorden
« Para montre ce choc culturel, lʼincompréhension mutuelle et comment lʼarmée et ces missions en arrivent à déshumaniser ceux qui la font. Et quand cʼest Bruno Vanden Broecke qui le joue, cʼest fascinant. »
La Libre
"Het stuk is confronterend maar helend, moeilijk maar nodig, historisch maar brandend actueel."
MO*
« Bruno Vanden Broecke est un acteur qui ne semble pas jouer : il est son personnage, le para Nico Staelens. »
L\'Echo

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Bruno Vanden Broecke

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Credits

REGIE / MISE EN SCÈNE / DIRECTION Raven Ruëll SPEL / JEU / CAST Bruno Vanden Broecke TEKST / TEXTE / TEKST David Van Reybrouck SCENOGRAFIE / SCÉNOGRAPHIE / SET DESIGN Leo De Nijs UITVOERING DECOR / EXÉCUTION DÉCOR / SET EXECUTION KVS Atelier LICHTVORMGEVER / CRÉATION LUMIÈRES / LIGHTING DESIGN Johan Vonk LICHT UITVOERING / EXÉCUTION LUMIÈRES / LIGHTING Geert Drobé UITVOERING GELUID / EXÉCUTION SON / SOUND EXECUTION Dimitri Joly KOSTUUM / COSTUMES Heidi Ehrhart VERTALING BOVENTITELING / TRADUCTION SURTITRAGE / TRANSLATION SURTITLES Monique Nagielkopf PRODUCTIELEIDING / DIRECTEUR PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION MANAGER Lieven Symaeys PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KVS SPREIDING & TOURMANAGEMENT / DISTRIBUTION & TOUR MANAGEMENT Saskia Lienard MET DANK AAN / REMERCIEMENTS / THANKS TO Jacques Bloemen & Adriaan Van Den Hoof