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SCHWEINEREI

LOD / Lieselot Siddiki
Thu 24 Sep - Wed 12 May
24 Sep
-
12 May

When a clown moves into a palace,
he does not become a sultan.
No, the palace turns into a circus.
(Turkish proverb)

Welcome to a bacchanal of frenzied opulence and simmering fear. In an armoured bunker that is both a palace and an amusement park, two eccentric and reclusive figures are preparing for a final feast on the eve before the revolution. Outside, the crowd pounds on the walls; inside, the wine flows freely. Everything is in motion; nothing stands still. The music still plays, but beneath the beat, the ground is already shifting.

Theatre maker Lieselot Siddiki creates a sensory performance about heirs to their abundance and mistrust who find themselves trapped in a distorted present. Are they despots of a dying order, or disillusioned lost souls? Fear drives them: fear of contamination, fear of noise, fear of losing hierarchy, and fear of the outside world. And from fear grows violence.

They devour copious amounts, insatiable like Gargantua. Hunger and thirst become rituals. They dress up and play the roles of ruler and victim, repeating history until it becomes reality. They are simultaneously repulsive and seductive. Amidst the steaming dishes, Mozart's sonatas resound: clear, playful and almost childlike. The music charms and soothes, but beneath its elegant structures, unease festers. Harmony is clung to desperately, while dissonance asserts its presence.

SCHWEINEREI acts as a carnival: a temporary suspension of order and hierarchy. It is an exuberant masquerade in which power dynamics are overturned and masks meld into faces. Paradise is revealed to be a carefully staged gilded cage. Beneath the wigs and porcelain, paranoia simmers.

The text is written by Barbi Marković, who is renowned for her sharp, playful and subversive style. With ruthless precision, she dissects the myth of power, shifting between irony and menace to lay bare the cracks behind glossy facades.

SCHWEINEREI is a performance about the collapse of a world order and the events that follow. It’s a mirror of our times, in which decadence and revolution embrace one another. Because what happens when excess becomes uncontrollable? What happens when paradise is found to be rotten to the core? History teaches us that where decadence flourishes, revolution is never far behind.

Credits

direction and concept Lieselot Siddiki text Barbi Marković music Oscar Claus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performers Oscar Claus, Lucie Plasschaert, Lucas van der Vegt light design Max Adams technical support Pino Etz costumes Aidan Abnet props and wigs Tibau Beirnaert scenography Eva Demulder excecution scenography elements sidequest dramaturgy Dries Douibi with courtesy of Thomas Hoste production LOD muziektheater co-production arts centre VIERNULVIER, Toneelhuis, KVS, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, detheatermaker, Kunstenwerkplaats, Perpodium 
with the support of the Belgian Federal Government’s tax shelter via uFund

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