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De Duivels / Les Diables

Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Nona Demey Gallagher & Timo Sterckx / Krapp & KVS
Wed 26.04.2023 - Wed 14.02.2024
26.04.2023
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14.02.2024

At the start of the 17th century, the French provincial town of Loudun is shaken by a wave of hysteria: local nun Jeanne des Anges is accused of demonic possession.

Local authorities fear a demon, with obscene motives, is making the monastery unsafe at night. Soon they catch sight of the progressive and sexually promiscuous priest Urbain Grandier. This accusation marks the start of one of the most infamous witch trials in history. Loudun becomes the scene of a grand political theatre; both the nuns and Grandier become actors in a legal spectacle that addresses brand-new societal issues. Is the nuns’ possession truly a supernatural intervention by evil powers, or is it a collective denunciation of their centuries-long (sexual) oppression? And is Grandier guilty, or is he merely a scapegoat in a fast-evolving world?

Krapp wants to open up this historical case and use it as raw material for a new theatre production. Mats Vandroogenbroeck wrote a new theatre text based on historical materials, from novels and case files to accounts from spectators, exorcists, victims and accused. Nona Demey Gallagher takes on the direction, Timo Sterckx plays Urbain Grandier. 

Right at this time of major change – of scientific revolution, emerging enlightened thinking, growing atheism and feminist emancipation – forgotten devils re-emerge, stronger, more powerful and more conservative than ever before.

Extra

Op vrijdag 6 oktober geeft Dina Dooreman, dramaturge bij KVS, een introductie bij De Duivels / Les Diables. U bent welkom om die mee te volgen, om 19u30 in KVS BOX. 

De Duivels programme leaflet

"Krapp legt slim de link tussen het goed gedocumenteerde schijnproces van eeuwen geleden, en de gevallen van paranoia, complotdenken, religieuze retoriek, politieke framing en publieke processen waar we vandaag nog altijd mee geconfronteerd worden."
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Credits

Timo Sterckx

Nona Demey Gallagher

Mats Vandroogenbroeck

Fleur Perneel

Bastiaan Vandendriessche

Maria Zandvliet

Fiene Zasada

Emiel Vandekerckhove

Eleni Ellada Damianou

Credits

CONCEPT / CONCEPT / CONCEPT Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Nona Demey Gallagher, Timo Sterckx (KRAPP) SPEL / JEU / PERFORMANCE Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Timo Sterckx, Fleur Perneel, Bastiaan Vandendriessche, Maria Zandvliet, Fiene Zasada, Matthias Van de brul TEKST / TEXTE / TEXT Mats Vandroogenbroeck REGIE / MISE EN SCÈNE / DIRECTION Nona Demey Gallagher DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY Dina Dooreman KOSTUUMS / COSTUMES Eleni Ellada Damianou SCHILDERING / PEINTURE / PAINTING Emiel Vandekerckhove MUZIEK / MUSIQUE / MUSIC Lukas De Clerck BEGELEIDING / ACCOMPAGNEMENT / COACHING Valentijn Dhaenens LICHTONTWERP & -TECHNIEK / CONCEPTION & REGIE LUMIÈRE / LIGHT DESIGN & DIRECTION Dimi Stuyven GELUIDSONTWERP & -TECHNIEK / CONCEPTION & REGIE SONORE / SOUND DESIGN & ENGINEER Bram Moriau TECHNISCHE PRODUCTIE & TONEELMEESTER / PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE & RÉGISSEUR / TECHNICAL PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER Lieven Symaeys BOVENTITELING / SURTITRAGE / SURTITLING Inge Floré VERTALING / TRADUCTION / TRANSLATION Trevor Perri, Anne Vanderschueren PRODUCTIELEIDING / DIRECTEUR·RICE DE PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION MANAGER Catherine Vervaecke AFFICHEBEELD / IMAGE AFFICHE / ARTWORK POSTER Anton Claeys SPREIDING / DIFFUSION / DISTRIBUTION Saskia Liénard PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KRAPP & KVS COPRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION Perpodium, Reiefestival MET DE STEUN VAN / AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE / WITH THE SUPPORT OF De Grote Post, de Belgische Federale Overheid via Cronos Invest