ACT Festival theater & performance
La imaginación al poder!
ACT introduces you to a new generation of highly individual theatre-makers. The artists we present to you are young, up-and-coming and multitalented: they write their own plays, direct and often also perform on stage. They graft performances onto current and historical reality, and then translate these into their theatre idiom. In this third edition of ACT, fantasy plays a central role! You see theatre-makers and performance artists from Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Belgium. Although their backgrounds and starting points may be very different, they all use the same tools to find a way out of the impasse in which society seems to find itself. Often this is humour, but mostly it is fantasy.
Each and every one of the artists you see is a maker who places his compass on the map of the world. They assess what’s going wrong and use the stage as a place where, together with the audience, they want to work on shaping a new world. These artists perform and invent with a passion! They re-enact historical events that never occurred. They dress up, sometimes as a jester, and then again as a warrior. They pay homage to ‘the story’ and tell of things that rarely see the light of day. If necessary, they get out their tin soldiers to re-enact a history that should never be forgotten. In short, they delight in mixing fiction and reality. In the midst of all our current sense of crisis, and taking in all the injustices and crimes committed in the past, these artists want to deploy theatre performance to the full and so, hopefully, create a meaningful gesture for tomorrow’s world.
Wed 10 > Sat 20 Dec 2014
Each and every one of the artists you see is a maker who places his compass on the map of the world. They assess what’s going wrong and use the stage as a place where, together with the audience, they want to work on shaping a new world. These artists perform and invent with a passion! They re-enact historical events that never occurred. They dress up, sometimes as a jester, and then again as a warrior. They pay homage to ‘the story’ and tell of things that rarely see the light of day. If necessary, they get out their tin soldiers to re-enact a history that should never be forgotten. In short, they delight in mixing fiction and reality. In the midst of all our current sense of crisis, and taking in all the injustices and crimes committed in the past, these artists want to deploy theatre performance to the full and so, hopefully, create a meaningful gesture for tomorrow’s world.
Wed 10 > Sat 20 Dec 2014