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Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

La chambre d'Isabella

Jan Lauwers / Needcompany

09 > 11.11.2017

On the death of her adoptive parents, Isabella Morandi inherits a piece of property bequeathed by her real father, a museum-like room filled with archaeological and ethnographic items, and lined with a strange cabinet of curiosities: a variety of objects collected by an amateur explorer whom she admiringly calls her “desert prince” and who, according to legend, died during one of his expeditions.

Old and blind, Isabella draws on this memorial site to conjure up the ghosts of her past, including her seventy-four lovers, and share with us, through the prism of her dynamic life, a century of world history.

The tremendous Viviane De Muynck reigns supreme over a cast of actors, singers, dancers and musicians whose dynamic ensemble work sets a breathless pace for this gripping poetic narrative.

Calendar

  • - 20:15
  • - 20:15
  • - 20:15

Information

Language

FR, EN > FR, EN, NL

Venue

Grande Salle

Duration

120'

Cast

Direction, scenography & lighting/Regie, scenografie & lichtontwerp

Jan Lauwers

With

Viviane De Muynck, Anneke Bonnema, Hans Petter Dahl, Julien Faure, Benoît Gob, Misha Downey, Sung-Im Her, Sarah Lutz , Maarten Seghers, Elke Janssens, Jan Lauwers

Text

Jan Lauwers

The monologue of the lyer is written by Anneke Bonnema

Music

Hans Petter Dahl, Maarten Seghers

Costumes

Lot Lemm

Sound design

Dré Schneider

Dramaturgy

Erwin Jans

Assistant director

Elke Janssens

Production

Needcompany (Brussels)

Coproduction

Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Théâtre Garonne-Toulouse, La Rose des vents - Scène nationale de Villeneuve d’Asq, Octobre en Normandie, Brooklyn Academy of Music New York, welt in basel theaterfestival

With the partnership of

Kaaitheater (Brussels) & Commission Communautaire flamande de la Région Bruxelles-Capitale

With the participation of

Ministère de la Communauté flamande & Loterie nationale belge

© Maarten Vanden Abeele

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