Opening Night
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Fri 5 Jun '2620:30 - 22:10Philipszaal
Influenced by the exceptional film work of John Cassavetes and the acting of Gena Rowlands, DE HOE plays on excess, love and vulnerability. Opening Night is a collective search for a New Emotionality in an emotionally saturated society. Flirting with sentimentality play on life and death. Spontaneous and yet directed. Sincere and yet not. Opening Night is every night a premiere turned on its head.
In desperately filling the void left when an actor loses his words, three generations of actors undertake a feverish, tragicomic search for how to be as truthful as possible.
How would you like to speak? Intense right?
You want to speak intensely right?
How do you want to live? Grand and compelling, right?
I have always played life intensely; everything I know about love, I know by playing love. And then it happened, in the hubris, always the hubris.
Then it happened, then I forgot my lines,
then suddenly I didn't know what to say.
The media about Opening Night
"Opening Night is an inimitable blend of comedy, tragedy and the quasi-forgotten genre of the idea play." (Pzazz)
"This script is so layered and these actors are so besotted that even yet another deconstruction of their play reality comes in as something vulnerable. Or hilarious, in the case of Peter Van den Eede." (De Standaard ★★★★)
"Opening Night is a play óabout the theatre: an ingenious performance full of double bottoms."
About DE HOE
DE HOE is an intergenerational, inter-city theater play and workshop based in Antwerp and Ghent. This newly formed company is a fusion of the former Compagnie de KOE and Hof van Eede, two related leading collectives. The permanent core of DE HOE is supplemented every eighteen months by a young collective. At the moment, these are Mitch Van Landeghem and Carine van Bruggen. And so DE HOE is now Ans Van den Eede, Greg Timmermans, Natali Broods, Peter Van den Eede, Wannes Gyselinck, Willem de Wolf, Carine van Bruggen and Mitch Van Landeghem.
Credits
By and with Natali Broods/Els Dottermans, Mitch Van Landeghem/Lien Thys, Willem de Wolf, Ans Van den Eede/Laurence Roothooft, Carine van Bruggen, Peter Van den Eede, Greg Timmermans, Wannes Gyselinck Technique Lennert Boots, Marthe Leon Thys, Kato Stevens, Bert Vermeulen, Bram De Vreese Light, sound and scenery Bram De Vreese, Shane Van Laer Costumes Fran Labarque