Jan Fabre / Troubleyn Het is theater zoals te verwachten en te voorzien was

In the 1982 version, eight actors perform day-to-day activities nonstop for eight hours, the duration of a normal working day. It’s a performance without storylines or characters, but only situations. Smoking, spinning around, getting dressed and undressed, walking without moving. While doing so, the performers shout terms from art history or describe a day in keywords and unfinished sentences. Driven to exhaustion, they gradually open up. In that way, reality is given a place on stage, instead of fiction. Fabre places the detonator somewhere in between the red, gold and velvet of the theatre, this beautiful machine of dreams. The explosion can be heard from miles away.

Fabre is convinced that this historic peace of art still holds truthful and subversive power today. With his re-enactment, the theatre artist wants to challenge a new audience, in a new era. Will you be part of that new audience?