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© Kurt van der Elst

De Blinden

LOD - Josse De Pauw, Jan Kuijken & Collegium Vocale Vocale
Wed 03.10.2018 - Fri 05.10.2018
03.10.2018
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05.10.2018

Powerful texts are relevant throughout the times. More than a century ago Maurice Maeterlinck wrote Les Aveugles, which can still be read, spoken, sung, listened to today ... and is still fully comprehensible in our own time.

A group of blind people on an island, in a forest, in autumn ... they can hear the sea, the falling leaves. They wait for their guide, their leader, their priest ... he who can see. Where is he? Did he leave? For a moment or forever? Will he come back? Is he dead? They don’t know, they can’t see, they wait.

The blind, the washed-up, the refugees, the left-behind ... they that cannot see. And the priest, the leader, the guide ... can he see, or is he seeing blind? And the audience, they who come to watch ... can they see?

De Blinden is the third part of Josse De Pauw’s trilogy/trifony, after De Helden and De Mensheid. The composition this time is by Jan Kuijken, sung by Collegium Vocale Gent. On the scene: Josse De Pauw, Gorges Ocloo and Taka Shamoto.

© Kurt van der Elst
© Kurt van der Elst
© Kurt van der Elst
© Kurt van der Elst
© Kurt van der Elst

Credits

CONCEPT & DIRECTION JOSSE DE PAUW COMPOSITION JAN KUIJKEN TEXT MAURICE MAETERLINCK TEXT EDIT JOSSE DE PAUW & JAN KUIJKEN FINAL MONOLOGUE TOM JANSEN WITH JOSSE DE PAUW, GORGES OCLOO, TAKA SHAMOTO MUSICAL DIRECTION MARNIX DE CAT MUSICAL EXECUTION COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT SINGING VIOLA BLACHE, CÉCILE PILORGER, MAGDALENA PODKOSCIELNA, SOFIA GVIRTS, KAROLINA HARTMAN, PHILIPPE KAVEN, MARNIX DE CAT, VINCENT LESAGE, FELIX RUMPF LIGHTING ERIC SOYER SCENOGRAPHY ERIC SOYER & ANNE MARCQ REALISATION CLOTH ANNE MARCQ & ESTHER DENIS REALISATION DECORATELIER THÉÂTRE NATIONAL COSTUMES GRETA GOIRIS COSTUME ASSISTANTS BERT MENZEL, CLAUDINE GRINWIS & CATHERINE PIQUERAY TECHNIQUE BRECHT BEUSELINCK, JANNES DIERYNCK, WIM PIQUEUR VIDEO WIM PIQUEUR & PASCAL POISSONNIER SURTITLES KRISTEL DEWEERDT TRANSLATION JOSSE DE PAUW (NL), MONIQUE NAGIELKOPF (FR), LAURENCE ALMA TADEMA (EN) PRODUCTION MANAGER & SURTITLING KRISTEL DEWEERDT PRESS & COMMUNICATION MARIEKE BAELE PRODUCTION LOD MUZIEKTHEATER & THEATERPRODUCTIEHUIS ZEELANDIA COPRODUCTION KVS, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL WALLONIE – BRUXELLES, THEATER AAN ZEE, COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT, LE MANÈGE MAUBEUGE, THÉÂTRE DE NAMUR, GONE WEST, CULTUURPROGRAMMA VAN DE PROVINCIE WEST-VLAANDEREN VOOR DE HERDENKING VAN WOI WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE TAX SHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE POSSIBLE BY GRENSVERLEGGERS, REGELING TER ONDERSTEUNING VAN CULTURELE SAMENWERKINGEN TUSSEN PARTIJEN IN VLAANDEREN, DE PROVINCIE NOORD-BRABANT, DE PROVINCIE LIMBURG & DE PROVINCIE ZEELAND THANKS TO EMAD KHAZAL, ADELA MARTINEZ, ANNIE VAN HOORICK, HOLIA ABDULHAMID, EMAN DAWOUD RADWAN, ALI IBRAHIM YASEEN, ADEL OSMANI, SIRAJ MUWAFAQ AL-BAYATI