Thomas Verstraeten / Heleen van Haegenborgh / Toneelhuis
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light
Dates
sat 20 dec 2025 - 20:00
sun 21 dec 2025 - 15:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 40
duration
1h interval
No intermission
Extra info
introduction Erwin Jans + sign language interpreter / 19:15 & 14:15 / Music studio
Antwerp captured in a vibrant urban symphony
The Antwerp-based theatre maker, actor, and visual artist Thomas Verstraeten is part of the theatre collective FC Bergman, but with his solo work has already created extraordinary happenings at DE SINGEL. Following his much-discussed Seefhoek Series, in which he blurred the boundaries between the city and the theatre, he is now collaborating with composer Heleen Van Haegenborgh on a new urban project. This time, he trains his gaze not on a single neighbourhood, but on the whole city.
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light consists of a large-scale symphony of everyday urban sounds and a video installation. One hundred city dwellers from all corners of Antwerp each play their own 'instrument'. On stage, there are no violins, woodwinds, or percussion, but cars with revving engines, a sunny terrace with clinking glasses, barking dogs, a wheeled suitcase sliding over cobblestones, a singing street guitarist, a road worker with a jackhammer, a clock striking twelve, birdsong… Together, all these instruments form a sculptural collage of the city on the Blue Hall stage.
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light consists of a large-scale symphony of everyday urban sounds and a video installation. One hundred city dwellers from all corners of Antwerp each play their own 'instrument'. On stage, there are no violins, woodwinds, or percussion, but cars with revving engines, a sunny terrace with clinking glasses, barking dogs, a wheeled suitcase sliding over cobblestones, a singing street guitarist, a road worker with a jackhammer, a clock striking twelve, birdsong… Together, all these instruments form a sculptural collage of the city on the Blue Hall stage.
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