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The Blind Poet

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JAN LAUWERS & NEEDCOMPANY: THE BLIND POET

SAT 13.6. | 20:00 & SUN 14.6. | 18:00 | ORANGERIE | MUSIC THEATRE | Jan Lauwer’s impulsive and much-visited performance installation “The House of Our Fathers” was the crowd puller at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in 2013. His latest project “The Blind Poet” was created in close collaboration with the composer Maarten Seghers and co-produced by the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen.

Lauwers examines the degree to which history as we know it is determined by lies, chance meetings and random events. Taking the family trees of the performers, their nationalities, cultures and languages as a starting point, an alternative world history is created – featuring women who throw stones and end up by being burnt at the stake and a Crusader whose armour is too small.

WITH Grace Ellen Barkey, Jules Beckman, Anna Sophia Bonnema, Hans Petter Melø Dahl, Benoît Gob, Maarten Seghers, Mohamed Toukabri

TEXT, STAGING, LIGHT, DIRECTION Jan Lauwers

MUSIC Maarten Seghers

CHOREOGRAPHY Grace Ellen Barkey

COSTUMES Lot Lemm

LANGUAGES English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Tunisian, Arabic with German subtitles

DURATION ca. 140 minutes / incl. interval

PRICE GROUP C (40/30/20 | red. 35/25/15)

Buy tickets online (13.6.)

Buy tickets online (14.6.)

A production by the Needcompany in co-production with the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, FIBA – Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main
With support by the Flemish authorities

Event(s): 13.06.2015 
from 20:00 to 22:00 o'clock
14.06.2015 
from 18:00 to 20:00 o'clock
Location

Orangerie Herrenhausen

  • Herrenhäuser Straße 3
  • 30419 Hannover