click on the imageArtistic director of Toneelhuis Guy Cassiers (1960) is considered one of the most innovative theatre-makers in Europe. He has developed a very personal theatrical language in which he successfully marries two of his passions: visual technology and literature. High points include his four-part Proust cycle and Sunken Red, after the novel by Jeroen Brouwers.
In recent years he has concentrated on his Triptych of Power - Mefisto for ever, Wolfskers and Atropa. Avenging peace - about the complex relationships between art, politics and power. He is now taking that theme a step further in a new triptych based on Robert Musil's novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), the first part of which had its première at the end of the 2009-2010 season.
Besides the visual technology, music is also starting to play an increasingly important role in Cassiers' productions, as evidenced once again by two new opera creations: House of the Sleeping Beauties (music Kris Defoort) and Adam in Ballingschap (Adam in Exile; music Rob Zuidam). It is perhaps no coincidence that he is currently directing Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Milan and Berlin.
Guy Cassiers has become increasingly interested in European history and in the realization that we are standing on a fault line. The more we see of the theatre projects he has in the pipeline, the more obvious this becomes.
