“D’r komt nen time in everybody zi life hij moet pakke zi hart in zi polle en wage ne kans”, provides a flavour of the dialogue in De krippel (The Crippel). In 2002 Olympique Dramatique and cronies brought the house down with their virtuoso language concoctions.
Ten years ago Tom Dewispelaere, Ben Segers, Stijn Van Opstal and Geert Van Rampelberg felt the need to do their own thing, independently of a director, and so set up their actors' collective. We now know what that is: uninhibited by any political correctness but with tremendous generosity of spirit Olympique Dramatique makes mostly brazen, physical productions packed with humour and violence and a good quantity of testosterone, as exemplified by De kale zangeres (The Bald Soprano), The Lieutenant of Inishmore and De Jossen.
Olympique Dramatique is always looking for new challenges. In De geruchten (The Rumours) they allowed themselves to be 'restrained' by Guy Cassiers, with Kunstminnende heeren (Art-loving Gentlemen) for once they did not start from an existing text, and with Adams appels they ventured into the world of the musical.
This season, 2009-2010, the programme features two co-productions with the KVS: Titus Andronicus with KVS's core actors, Raven Ruëll, Koen De Graeve, Greet Verstraete and Wouter Hendrickx, and In de strafkolonie (In the Penal Colony) with Bart Meuleman.
