ALL.
Lisa Verbelen / BOG. & Het Zuidelijk Toneel
dates
Fri 13.03, 23:38
Fri 13.03, 23:38
location
Kaaitheater
duration
60 min.
language
EN
Info
ALL. is a music theatre performance in which Lisa Verbelen tries to grasp something big (everything). Alone.
ALL. is about the fact that everything is complex.
Lisa doubts, changes perspectives, and zooms out while considering the following questions:
- How can we deal with complexity that seems inevitable as soon as something starts to happen?
- How can we change our way of thinking and with that the world, without simplifying?
- Is that possible? Are we able to not simplify things?
These considerations manifest themselves in quite an ambitious performance with a moving stage, music, smoke and possibly a little dance.
Nothing is certain but it will be different than you think, and you will leave as a changed person.
(Although, if you do not come, you will change anyway.)
ALL. is part of Lisa’s long-term research into the relationships between the sound and the visual form of music, and into the influence music, language and scenography can have on each other and how they can form a composition together.
Credits
concept & performance Lisa Verbelen | supervising director Suze Milius | dramaturgy Roos Euwe | stage design & construction Merijn Versnel | light design David de Joode | technician Timo Merkies & Thierry Wilder | company manager Anne Baltus | producer Eva Banning | marketing Frédérique Donker | production BOG. & Het Zuidelijk Toneel | coproduction
d e t h e a t e r m a k e r, deSingel & De Brakke Grond
Jury
In ALL, Lisa Verbelen succeeds in combining the most complex questions of life into a seemingly simple theatrical language. Installation, music and image tell the story without ever becoming anecdotal. ALL. is musical theatre in its purest form.
—#jury20
Pers
Lisa Verbelen is a remarkable musical performer. (...) Her renderings on stage are intimate, lucid, decisive. She calls out the complexity of all things, which is then translated into a comprehensible score for her audience.
—Operadagen Rotterdam Award 2018