Are we not drawn onward to new erA
Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)
- Wed Feb 1 7:30
- Thu Feb 2 7:30
- Fri Feb 3 7:30
- Sat Feb 4 7:30
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Ontoerend Goed’s palindromic take on the climate crisis uses structure as metaphor, employing repetition and reversal to symbolize the need for a worldwide undoing of our actions. The play starts off with backward speech from the actors, but fear not: this strangeness is temporary, and as things become clearer the genius of the creation reveals itself.
Technically as well as formally ingenious, Are we not drawn onward to new erA turns time, movement and visuals on their heads–and, like the best works of radical art, it does so in the service of political meaning. It’s an artistic intervention in a matter of the utmost importance, and it uses temporality as a provocation. As we draw closer and closer to worldwide calamity, this work asks us to rethink human possibility.
Funded by Ontroerend Goed in coproduction with Spectra (BE)
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Artist Bio
Ontroerend Goed
Belgian-based but internationally renowned, Ontroerend Goed stages original productions that blend the ethics of theatre with those of performance art. Unpredictable, provocative and innovative, the group’s works are premised on the idea that each idea deserves its own unique form.
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Venue
6354 Crescent Road, University of British Columbia
Showtimes
- February 1: 7:30
- February 2: 7:30
- February 3: 7:30
- February 4: 7:30
Runtime: 75 min, no intermission
Post-show talkback: Feb 1
Content Advisory
Haze
Tickets
Single Tickets: $39
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Access
Deaf/Hard of hearing friendly (please read the introduction first)
Click here to read the introduction for Deaf / hard of hearing audience members, created by the artists.
Credits
DIRECTOR Alexander Devriendt CAST Bastiaan Vandendriessche, Britt Bakker, Ferre Marnef, Kristien De Proost, Leonore Spee, Vincent Dunoyer DRAMATURGY Jan Martens SCENOGRAPHY Philip Aguirre LIGHT, VIDEO & SOUND Jeroen Wuyts, Babette Poncelet TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Jeroen Wuyts, Seppe Brouckaert, Sarah Feyen COSTUMES Charlotte Goethals, Valerie Le Roy COMPOSITION William Basinski PERFORMED BY Spectra Ensemble ARRANGEMENTS Joris Blanckaert FINISHING OFF STATUE Daan Verzele, Jelmer Delbecque, Jesse Frans PHOTOGRAPHY Mirjam Devriendt INTERNSHIPS Morgan Eglin, Tim De Paepe MANY THANKS TO Ilona Lodewijckx, Luc De Bruyne, Matthieu Goeury, Simon Stokes, Björn Doumen, Les Ballets C de la B, everybody involved in the pre-study ‘koortsmeetsysteemstrook’ @ Toneelacademie Maastricht, and our fantastic test-audiences.
THE PERFORMANCE FEATURES William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops by Spectra Ensemble.
ONTROEREND GOED IS Alexander Devriendt, David Bauwens, Wim Smet, Karen Van Ginderachter, Sarah Feyen, Beth Thyrion, Angelo Tijssens, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aurélie Lannoy, Karolien De Bleser IN COPRODUCTION WITH Spectra, Kunstencentrum Viernulvier Gent, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Adelaide Festival & Richard Jordan Productions.