Funeral

Ontroerend Goed
Thu 30 Jun - Sat 15 Apr
30 Jun
-
15 Apr

Funeral is a collective ritual about the finiteness of things, created by Ontroerend Goed.

It shall start, in the dark. We will greet each other and we will say goodbye. There will be singing and pretending. There will be light and room for darkness. We’ll light candles, we will eat and drink and celebrate our lives. And all of that will end. Welcome.

After interactive shows about economy (£¥€$), democracy (Fight Night) and online radicalisation (TM), Ontroerend Goed looks the audience and death in the eyes.

Funeral is a theatrical ceremony, a new ritual that brings people together, whatever they believe, are or think. Because everything is finite and we are going to have to live with that.

 

LOD muziektheater is co-producer of Funeral

I don’t believe in God but I miss him.

Nothing to be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes

Credits

director Alexander Devriendt cast Giovanni Brand, Karolien De Bleser, Charlotte De Bruyne, Josse De Pauw, Julia Ghysels, Aurélie Lannoy, David Roos, Angelo Tijssens e.a. music Joris Blanckaert, Hector Devriendt stage design Kris Martin technicians Sarah Feyen, Pepijn Mesure photography Dries Segers graphics Nick Mattan assistent research Remi Cosijn production Ontroerend Goed coproduction DE SINGEL INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE (BE), Kunstencentrum Voo?uit (BE), LOD muziektheater (BE), Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK), le MAIF Social Club, Paris (FR), La Rose des Vents, Villeneuve d’Ascq (FR), Perpodium (BE) distribution ART HAPPENS with the support of the Flemish Government and The City of Ghent made possible with the support of the Tax Shelter measure from the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest

Ontroerend Goed is Alexander Devriendt, Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Angelo Tijssens, Aurélie Lannoy, David Bauwens, Wim Smet, Pepijn Mesure, Sarah Feyen, Karen Van Ginderachter and Charlotte Nyota Bischop. 

LOD-artists & composers