seks(e)(n)
de KOE & mugmetdegoudentand
dates
Fri 13.03, 23:43
Fri 13.03, 23:43
location
Westrand cultuurcentrum Dilbeek
duration
100 min.
language
NL
Info
No more gender inequality according to de KOE and mugmetdegoudentand. The companies were inspired by Goethe’s novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften, set up as an amorous experiment in the style of Temptation Island. Do the characters fall prey to their passions and drives, the so-called laws of nature? Or does reason prevail? Even then, the ending was catastrophic.
In seks(e)(n) the novel is stripped down completely. Using the same ingredients – two men, two women, a garden – the theater makers embark on a totally new experiment, in a contemporary climate. In Goethe’s time, nature was still a place without people: we could not exist without it, but it could exist without us. In 2020 we have occupied, controlled and conditioned almost every square inch of the earth, depriving it of its wildness, its unpredictability. What is still ‘natural’?
Seks(e)(n) is about pigeonholing and labels, about definitions and appropriations, about freedom and malleability. Four people work their way through a lexicon of new and old terms, trying to grasp and refine them. Seks(e)(n) is about being on the move, being in free fall. Above all, seks(e)(n) is an opening.
Credits
by & with Lineke Rijxman, Natali Broods, Willem de Wolf & Peter Van den Eede | based on the ideas of Die Wahlverwandtschaften by Johann Wolfgang Goethe | scenography, sound & light Bram De Vreese & Shane Van Laer | music Ramses Van den Eede | costumes Julie De Meester & Jente De Graef | many thanks to Wannes Gyselinck & Ans Van den Eede | production de KOE & mugmetdegoudentand | coproduction Het Laatste Bedrijf | with support from the Belgian Federal government’s Tax Shelter measure | with the help of Gallop Tax Shelter
Jury
Their weapon: to play! With words and images! But razor sharp. So close to who they are. But it's just this closeness that counts: it opens the door to really play with meanings, to name and demine issues in one movement.
—#jury20
Pers
Seks(e)(n) is one of the most beautiful, touching and important things de KOE has ever made [...] unusually witty, sharp and revealing.
—Focus Knack
The refreshing standpoints on stage invite you to make connections to the world outside the theatre. Seks(e)(n) is #thisisourculture at its best, a protest on stage!
—thisishowweread.be