‘Thanks for Being Here’ Press
"Thanks for Being Here will be an ode to the audience, a tribute to being together. All of us with each our own truth, our own perspective, and how to make them come together and be celebrated. A meaningful quest, I think, in this precarious election year."
- Charlotte De Bruyne, actor.
'Thanks for Being Here' is a new Ontroerend Goed production about the way we look at things. About different points of view, different backgrounds, different lives. In a game of perspectives we will try to see the world through your eyes.
In this game of perspectives, Ontroerend Goed swaps the roles of audience and performers more than once. How important is a shared point of view for a collective experience? In 'Thanks for Being Here', we celebrate the (im)possibility of a shared perspective. So thanks for being here.
After 'Funeral', 'Thanks for Being Here' is the second performance by Ontroerend Goed on the celebration of life. This time, there’s nothing to mourn, only a celebration of a multitude of realities.
- 'Radically hopeful' - De Morgen ****
- 'a sweet present to the audience' - NRC ****
CALENDAR
CREDITS
directed by
Alexander Devriendt
with
Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Patricia Kargbo & Leonore Spee
costumes Fauve Ryckebusch
assistant-director Anne Meffert
technical Elias Beaudouin, Nick De Keyser & Matthias Tuinstra
AV consulting Maxime Lahousse & Vidiots
scenography light Scott Jun
sound editing Anne Meffert, Leonore Spee & David Sanders
technical production manager Jitske Vandenbussche
production assistant Lynn Van den Bergh
production
Ontroerend Goed
coproduction
Perpodium
in cooperation with
NTGent
with the support of
the Flemish Community & the city of Ghent
The Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal government & uFund