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International Summer Festival 2018
Theatre / Kids & Youths / Kampnagel

Miet Warlop / Hetpaleis

Big Bears Cry Too (Auch große Bären weinen)

Tickets:

adults: 15 Euro, children: 5 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, 50% discount with festival pass)

Info

Für alle ab 6 Jahren.

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EXTRA SHOW FR 24.08. / 14:00

A dada spectacle for young rebels, ages six and up, with a gum-chewing denture, ping-pong rules and a paintflood.

Miet Warlop’s spectacles of color and form – with foam sausages, anthropomorphic balls of wool and burbling paint fountains – have been hugely popular at previous International Summer Festivals. Now, for the first time ever, the Belgian has adapted her form of action-theater, inspired by visual art, for a younger audience. BIG BEARS CRY TOO is an approximately 45-minute stage happening including scenes in which an oversize teddy bear explodes, third eyes float through the room and the stage is flooded with paint. This wonderfully crazy object-theater turns the laws and assumptions of the stage upside down, and is a cry for creative recklessness, humor in art and having a big heart. The fact that big bears need to cry too isn’t just an insight that will unburden people above the ages of six, but older visitors who sometimes need to be reminded that they aren’t totally alone in this big, confusing universe – and that art can be a central part of life.

BIG BEARS CRY TOO production leaflet (PDF download)


concept, direction: Miet Warlop performance: Wietse Tanghe, Christian Bakalov music, text: Pieter De Meester, Joppe Tanghe, Wietse Tanghe, Miet Warlop technical direction: Hugh Roche Kelly, Frouke Van Gheluwe assistance: Barbara Vackier, Ian Gyselinck, Lila John, Geert Viaene (Amotec), Karolien Nuyttens, Mathias Huybrighs Outside Eye: Danai Anesiadou light design: Henri Emmanuel Doublier stage production: Seppe Cosyns production assistant: Tanja Vrancken production / technical realisation: Miet Warlop / Irene Wool vzw (Gent) und hetpaleis (Antwerpen) production / coordination: Wim Viaene, Elke Vanlerberghe
Coproduction Vooruit (Gent), TJP Centre Dramatique National Strasbourg (Frankreich), Gessnerallee (Zürich), AUAWIRLEBEN Theaterfestival Bern (Schweiz), Luzerner Theater (Schweiz). With friendly support of Flemish Authorities, City of Ghent, BUDA (Kortrijk).