Amnes(t)ie
Action Zoo Humain
dates
Thu 12.03, 23:38
Thu 12.03, 23:38
location
Monty
duration
60 min.
language
Dutch spoken | surtit. ENG
Info
Dive into the television landscape with Action Zoo Humain through the unprecedented talk show Samen door één deur (‘Together through one door’). Amnes(t)ie tackles both our collective past and today’s precarious socio-political reality: do people who have left Belgium to fight in Syria and who subsequently return deserve a second chance in our society? Can we learn lessons from the reintegration of collaborators after the Second World War? Must we forgive and forget? And is there a possibility of reconciliation?
Forget the idle talk, the conflict, the feigned interest. Samen door één deur plays the radical reconciliation card, with Bert Gabriëls as the host. The evenings guests: the daughter of a Flemish collaborator and the mother of a person who fought in Syria.
Credits
concept Chokri Ben Chikha | direction Chokri Ben Chikha & Tom Dupont | dramaturgy Zouzou Ben Chikha | actors Bert Gabriëls, Dahlia Pessemiers-Benamar & Marijke Pinoy | text Erik-Ward Geerlings & Erwin Jans | production Jan-Simon De Lille | direction video Koen De Saeger | technic Niels Leven & Lucas Van de Voorde | camera Adolphe Mutoni | chorus Mais Quelle Chanson o.l.v. Kapinga Gysel | costumes Marij De Brabandere | thanks to prof. dr. Bruno De Wever & dr. Koen Aerts (Universiteit Gent), Stef Ampe, Karolien De Schepper, Kathy Douchar, Fatima Ezzarhouni & Willem Van Cauwenberghe | subsidized by The Flemish Goverment, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen & the city of Ghent | in cooperation with les ballets C de la B | partners NTGent, KASK/School of Arts/HoGent & Theater Rotterdam
Jury
A lesson in double perspective, and a light-hearted plea for empathy. Well, perhaps not light-hearted. Chokri Ben Chikha is more audacious, but very sensible and entertaining.
—Jury report
Pers
A strong performance that strikes multiple chords. And that masterfully makes fun of television.
—Het Nieuwsblad