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Primeval and Other Times

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07 Dec '23 to 18 Apr '24

Primeval and Other Times

ITA-ensemble / Hotel Modern / Guy Cassiers

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Thu 07 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Fri 08 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Sat 09 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Sun 10 Dec
15:00 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Wed 13 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Thu 14 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Fri 15 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Sat 16 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Sun 17 Dec
15:00 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Wed 20 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Thu 21 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
English surtitles / performance / Inclusief pauze
Fri 22 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Sat 23 Dec
19:30 - TBA
Grote Zaal
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Wed 10 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Thu 11 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Fri 12 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Sat 13 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Tue 16 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Wed 17 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
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Thu 18 Apr
19:30 - TBA
Rabozaal
English surtitles / performance / Inclusief pauze
Primeval and Other Times
07 Dec '23 to 18 Apr '24
ITA-ensemble / Hotel Modern / Guy Cassiers

Guy Cassiers, together with Hotel Modern and 11 actors from the ensemble, creates the world of Primeval and Other Times: in models and live on several video screens, life in the village and the surrounding nature is created. The whole is a tableau vivant of epic proportions that does justice to the layered world of the novel.

Run time tba
Genre theatre
Language Dutch
Surtitles English, Thu, December 14 & 21

Opening night Sun, December 10, 2023

Primeval and Other Times


Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk ingeniously brings to life a Polish village where residents try to survive the effects of two world wars, communism, and the advent of modernity. Several generations of villagers start families, build houses, and try to resist the violence of history and nature as best they can. Birth, growth, decay, and death affect all creatures - trees, spirits, and animals in addition to humans - and are described with compassion and gentleness. Tokarczuk shows that every human being is completely unique, searching for meaning and purpose.
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Director Guy Cassiers gained fame with performances in which video plays a central role and in which the actors constantly switch between acting and storytelling. At ITA, he previously made Hamlet versus Hamlet (by Tom Lanoye), The Kindly Ones (after Jonathan Littell), May we be forgiven (after A.M. Homes) and Lehman Trilogy (by Stefano Cassini).

Hotel Modern is a Rotterdam-based collective that has made an international name for itself with performances that imaginatively depict great history using live video of models and puppets.

Guy Cassiers (c)Lara Gasparotto

Guy Cassiers on Primeval and Other Times

'From a small Polish village, we follow the important events that shaped Europe in the 20th century. In a tender and disarming way, Olga Tokarczuk shows a swarm of voices searching for higher meanings in their harsh existence. The characters form a close-knit community but are driven apart by a violent history.

Tokarczuk sketches the world as a living, ceaselessly changing entity before our eyes, of which humans are a small but at the same time powerful part. Thus, in an almost fairy-tale manner, she makes us look afresh, through the eyes of some 20 villagers, at our current situation and our responsibility in it as human beings.'

CAST

Language NP Language no problem Chris Nietvelt Chris Nietvelt
Language NP Language no problem Maarten Heijmans Maarten Heijmans
Language NP Language no problem Janni Goslinga Janni Goslinga
Language NP Language no problem Hélène Devos Hélène Devos
Language NP Language no problem Bart Slegers Bart Slegers
Language NP Language no problem Ilke Paddenburg Ilke Paddenburg
Language NP Language no problem Minne Koole Minne Koole
Language NP Language no problem Frieda Pittoors Frieda Pittoors
Language NP Language no problem Daniël Kolf Daniël Kolf
Language NP Language no problem ‘Ntianu Stuger ‘Ntianu Stuger
Guy Cassiers (c)Vincent Delbrouck
Guy Cassiers
Director
Guy Cassiers

Guy Cassiers (born in Antwerp, 1960) is considered one of Europe’s top theatre-makers. His idiosyncratic theatrical idiom in which he successfully marries visual technology with a passion for literature is highly esteemed within Belgium and throughout the world. He has been artistic director of Toneelhuis from 2006 - 2022.

In season 23|24 his direction of Primeval and Other Times(Olga Tokarczuk) will premiere at ITA and his direction of Lehman Trilogy will be reprised.

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CREDITS


by Olga Tokarczuk
directed by Guy Cassiers
adaptation Peter Van Kraaij

with thanks to Private Producers Dirk Raes and Helga Lasschuijt, Rob and Marijke van Oordt, and Hans Sauerwein-|-


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