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CHRONIC
Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca
Contemporary masculinity training programmes, survival retreats and ‘wild man’ brotherhoods promise renewal through discipline, hierarchy and toughness. They draw on the chivalric ideal: men as warriors who must prove themselves and control their emotions.
In CHRONIC, a figure enters a commune inspired by Arthur’s Round Table. Jousting, sword fighting and wearing armour initially seem part of that same ritual of hardening. But what if these rituals could mean something completely different? Instead of being hardened, the initiator is dismantled and reassembled, according to laws that lie outside the ordinary world.
What begins as a chivalric quest thus becomes an exploration of bodily care and control. How closely are the two linked?
concept Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca spel & choreography Tibau Beirnaert & Milan Mitera direction Laurens Aneca visual design & projections Loes Vanneste costume design Tobias van Nieuwenhove music Seppe Vande Veire lighting Kato Ooms 360° scenography Spacemakers outside eye Seppe Decubber & Kopano Maroga props & wigs Tibau Beirnaert executive producer detheatermaker coproduction Monty, KAAP, PLAN Broedplaats ’s-Hertogenbosch, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond & Perpodium with the support of de Tax Shelter-maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid partners deAuteurs, Antigone, laGeste, CAMPO, BUDA & Cement Festival pictures Louis Kerckhof