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please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood (2023)

Geert Belpaeme

 



In Please (don’t) let me be (mis)understood three figures perform the intrinsic frenzy of being human. To do so, they revert to an old, almost extinct, tradition: clowning. Using the clown’s nonsensical language and wobbly body, with gleeful recklessness and frivolous pretence, they make their way through human history and beyond.

Please (don’t) let me be (mis)understoodis a hybrid performance that moves in between clowning, dance and theatre, a performance in which human bodies step out of their banks to play non-human relationships as well. Everything with the clown’s wink.

concept & direction Geert Belpaeme 
performance & creation Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Geert Belpaeme and Stanley Ollivier 
battery Wim Segers or Arno Grootaers 
co-direction Bosse Provoost 
dramaturgical advice Mats Van Herreweghe 
lighting design Geert Vanoorlé 
costume design & scenography Carly Rae Heathcote 
productional support Famke Dhondt


production: l’hommmm / coproduction: C-TAKT, STUK en VIERNULVIER / spreiding:Vincent Company / in collaboration withCC Blankenberge, CC Strombeek, Cultuurhuis de Warande, De Grote Post, Dommelhof, Kaaitheater, Nona en Miramiro / with the support of the Flemish government and Culture Ghent

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Please (don’t) let me be (mis)understood went into premiere on the 14th of January 2023 in NONA (Mechelen), and was afterwards performed in CC Strombeek (Grimbergen), Monty (Antwerp), De Grote Post (Ostend), De Nieuwe Vorst (Tilburg), C-Mine (Genk), Theater op de Markt (Neerpelt), STUK (Leuven) and Campo (Gent).

Pictures by Anaïs Chabeur


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