Lies Pauwels

LIES PAUWELS (°1968, Ghent) is both director and actress. She could be seen in the legendary pieces by Alain Platel and Arne Sierens and has worked with countless performers and groups including Tg STAN, Het Toneelhuis, Dood Paard, Eric De Volder, Dimitri Verhulst and Josse De Pauw. She has created many performances at home and abroad, such as at the Manchester International Festival, Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Burgtheater in Vienna. At hetpaleis in Antwerp, she created The Hamilton Complex, which was a breakthrough success both in Flanders and internationally. Lies is one of the LOD’s artists in residence. Do the Calimero was her first production for LOD muziektheater. 

Her work is characterised by a true-to-life quality unique in theatre. The performances often start from a fascination for unique people or situations, but time and time again, Pauwels succeeds in using these ostensibly extravagant starting points as catalysts for a much more universal story. Because in the end, we are all people wrestling with the same problems, suffering from the same limitations and who ultimately can only do their best to make something of life, despite everything. 

“THE HAMILTONCOMPLEX IS THE RARE KIND OF THEATRE THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF”
        - Charlotte De Somviele, De Standaard

“THE JOY OF PLAYING AND ESPECIALLY THE IRONIC LAYER - ALSO TYPICAL FOR ADOLESCENTS - MAKE THE 100 MINUTES FLY BY”
       - Concertnews (about Het Hamiltoncomplex)

“WHIMSICAL, MYSTERIOUS, OVERWHELMING, EMOTIONAL, AVERSE TO ALL LOGIC AND FULL OF CONTRASTS”
       - Charlotte De Somviele, Etcetera (about Anatomie van Pijn)

“IMAGINATIVE, DISRUPTIVE AND UNCOMPROMISING” ****
        - Hein Janssen, De Volkskrant (about Anatomie van Pijn)