Guerre et térébenthine
War and Turpentine
Jan Lauwers & Needcompany
After the success of La chambre d’Isabella (2004), Jan Lauwers took on a sizeable challenge: adapt a known, renowned and multi-prizewinning novel written by a friend. Stefan Hertmans’ novel was based on old notebooks that his grandfather Urbain Martien entrusted him with at his death. The notebooks contained his writings on different episodes of his life, a poverty-stricken childhood in the Ghent of the late nineteenth century, the atrocities of the first world war, his love for a woman who died too soon, as well as his reflections on his life as a painter. An outlet and a way of sublimating suffering.
Jan Lauwers takes hold of this epic and offers the key role, that of narrator, to the highly talented Viviane De Muynck. Composer Rombout Willems has written a score for piano, cello and violin which is choreographic and pictorial and evokes with poignancy the realism of the beginning of the century and the violence of war. All of this now a world that no longer exists.
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Information
Language
FR — Surtitles NL & EN
Duration
120’
Venue
Grande salle
Sound level
category 2
Cast
Adaptation, direction, scenography
Jan Lauwers
Music
Rombout Willems
With
Viviane De Muynck, Urbain Joseph Emile Martien / Benoît Gob
, Grace Ellen Barkey
, Maria Emelia Ghys / Sarah Lutz
, Maria Emelia Martien / Romy Louise Lauwers, Elik Niv
, Maarten Seghers, Yonier Camilo Mejia
, Claire Chevallier
, Simon Lenski
, George van Dam
Paintings and drawings
Benoît Gob
Costumes
Lot Lemm
Dramaturgy, subtitles
Elke Janssens
Light design
Ken Hioco
Sound
Ditten Lerooij, Dries D’Hondt
Set and light
Saul Mombaerts, Tijs Michiels
Production
Marjolein Demey
Intern P.U.L.S.
Bosse Provoost
Costumes assistant
Lieve Meeussen
Fencing coach
Jacques Cappelle
Intern
Josephine Dapaah
Set construction
Toneelhuis
Set dressing
Simon Callens
Logistical support
Irmgard Mertens
Dramaturgical introduction
Erwin Jans
Press
Liesbet Waegemans for Panache
Photography
Maarten Vanden Abeele
From the novel by
« Guerre et Térébenthine », Stefan Hertmans, Gallimard
French translation
« Guerre et térébenthine », Isabelle Rosselin, © Editions Gallimard
Surtitles based on the english translation
« War and Turpentine », David McKay
Tax Shelter financing
Casa Kafka Pictures empowered by Belfius, Isabelle Molhant, Valérie Daems, Christel Simons
Production
Needcompany
Co-production
Toneelhuis (Antwerpen), Festival de Marseille, Provincie West-Vlaanderen
With the support of
Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, de Vlaamse overheid