Following Porcelain and The girl the boy the river, the director Wouter Van Looy is once again collaborating with the writer Paul Verrept.

A devastating storm is tearing through the realm, a wall of water forces the king and queen out of their castle. And what’s more, out of their country. Their daughter does not feel at home anywhere, and in this new no man’s land she does not set a foot on the ground. Not even a toe. When her parents die, she crowns herself queen of a country that does not exist: a country only of words. ‘I am a living memory, a remnant, a last specimen.’ Following Porcelain and The girl the boy the river, the director Wouter Van Looy is once again collaborating with the writer Paul Verrept. The Queen without a country is a surprising contemporary fairytale about love and loss. To hide in an imagined past? Or set foot on alien soil after all? Any homeless person will recognise the young queen’s dilemma. The resident composer Wim Henderickx translates her homesickness into a blistering score.
 

Credits


Composition & Musical direction Wim Henderickx I Text Paul Verrept I Concept & direction Wouter Van Looy I Set design Freija Van Esbroeck I Sound design Bart Celis I Electronics Jorrit Tamminga I Video Paul Delissen, Wouter Van Looy I Light design Peter Quasters I Singers Reut Rivka, Natascha Young, Els Mondelaers, Frank Wörner I Actor Mensah Adams I Percussion BL!NDMAN [drums] Tom De Cock, Ruben Cooman, Christiaan Saris I Voice-Off Marie Vinck I Videofiguration Luiza Garbuzian I Costumes Johanna Trudzinski

Replacements on the Oerol Festival: Singers Reut Rivka Shabi, Elise Caluwaerts, Els Mondelaers, Styraburzynski Maciej I Actor Tunde Bamidele I Voice-Off Marleen Scholten

 

Location Dates Hour  
Zomer van Antwerpen (Antwerpen)
+32 3 224 85 20
www.zva.be
5/8/2014
6/8/2014
7/8/2014
8/8/2014
9/8/2014
12/8/2014
13/8/2014
14/8/2014
15/8/2014
16/8/2014
19/8/2014
20/8/2014
21/8/2014
22/8/2014
23/8/2014
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00
20:00















Parktheater Eindhoven (Eindhoven)
+31 40 2 156 156
www.parktheater.nl
5/10/2014
5/10/2014
16:00
13:00


Concertgebouw Brugge (Brugge)
+32 50 47 69 99
www.concertgebouw.be
29/10/2014
29/10/2014
14:00
17:00


Opera Vlaanderen Gent (Gent)
+32 9 268 10 11
www.vlaamseopera.be
27/1/2015
28/1/2015
28/1/2015
14:00
15:00
10:00



O. (Rotterdam)
+ 31 1 436 60 70
https://o-festival.nl/
25/5/2015
19:00

OEROL (Terschelling-Midsland)
+31 562 448 448
www.oerol.nl
12/6/2015
12/6/2015
13/6/2015
13/6/2015
14/6/2015
14/6/2015
15/6/2015
15/6/2015
16/6/2015
17/6/2015
17/6/2015
18/6/2015
18/6/2015
19/6/2015
20/6/2015
20/6/2015
21/6/2015
15:00
21:00
15:00
19:00
15:00
19:00
15:00
19:00
10:30
19:00
15:00
15:00
19:00
19:00
19:00
15:00
15:00