Allemaal Indiaan
On stage are two houses complete with rooms, hallways, balconies, roofs, doors and windows that open, close, slam shut and smash into pieces. Bustling about inside, outside or around a drainpipe are the cells of a medium under pressure, the tale of survival in a poor urban neighbourhood. Street punks, broken homes, overwhelmed parents, a few outsiders and the cat Aida act out a soap opera devoid of context and kind feelings.
Moments of life caught on the fly or on the sly rush by. The dialogue hits hard, the characters seek and find themselves and each other and life is portrayed just as it is — savage, excessive and harsh. The Spice Girls, Haydn, Nathalie Imbrughlia and Paradiso provide an acidic bliss for a perfect illusion of chaos.
BY ALAIN PLATEL ET ARNE SIERENS COPRODUCERS HOLLAND FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM, THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE, SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE, INTERNATIONALES SOMMERTHEATERFESTIVAL, AARHUS FESTIVAL, GÖTEBORG DANCE & THEATRE FESTIVAL, REF ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL 2000, TEATRE NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA, THEATERFESTIVAL BOULEVARD’S HERTOGENBOSCH, FESTIVAL THEATERFORMEN BRAUNSCHWEIG.
