Our first subsidized performance, made in residency in STUK Leuven. Theatre maker Laura Van Dolron joined the cast, which for the first time didn’t include any member of our core team. Exsimplicity was a play about a play that never started. For one hour, three actors made explicit what they were doing on stage, from the excitement of the first entrance, over the obligatory nude scene for nudity’s sake, to the power struggle between the performer and the playwright. Some people thought we had become too serious, but at the heart of the performance, there was still a great deal of playfulness and twisted comedy.
... exactly that is the merit of Ontroerend Goed in Exsimplicity: it dissects the whole lot down to the basics, but re-builds at the same time an embryonic vision of how theatre nowadays could relate more directly to its audience, how it could re-consider its own function on and off stage more efficiently…