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A Day is a Hundred Years

Damaged Goods, Toneelhuis, Jozef Wouters

Since 2019 Jozef Wouters has shared his Decoratelier in Brussels with Barry Ahmad Talib, an artist from Sagale (Guinee-Conakry)

During the long winter months, they cut thousands of leaves out of fabric for Barry’s tree sculptures. Out of those sessions, they weave a tissue of stories and sounds, and eventually, a show. Together with a group of builders, musicians, performers and poets they build a world between night and day, temporality and future, visibility and invisibility.  

A Day is a Hundred Years is Jozef Wouters’ most personal work to date. With a turning stage and a scenography comprised of various layers, shadows and stories, Jozef and his team create a kind of planetarium within the space of the theatre. An infinitely mutable and negotiable space which trades the central perspective for a multitude of gazes, in which the scenography sees us more than we see it.

text, director & set design

  • Jozef Wouters

artistic collaborators

  • Michiel Soete
  • Barry Ahmad Talib

performance

  • Barry Ahmad Talib
  • Maya Dhondt
  • Micha Goldberg
  • Naomi Lilith Quashie
  • Kamal Tall 

light design & musical composition

  • Michiel Soete

dramaturgy

  • Bryana Fritz

costume design

  • Lila John 

technical director

  • Menno Vandevelde

built by

  • Decoratelier (Brussel)

inside eye

  • Enzo Smits

production management

  • Vincent Focquet
  • Michiel Soete
  • Marie Umuhoza

internship

  • Chloë Tempel
  • Freek Willems
  • Sophie Bax

production

  • Damaged Goods

coproduction

  • Toneelhuis
  • Wiener Festwochen
  • PACT Zollverein
  • Perpodium

with the support of

  • de Vlaamse Overheid
  • De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
  • Tax Shelter maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid

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  1. Thursday 18 May 2023 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  2. Friday 19 May 2023 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  3. Saturday 20 May 2023 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  4. Thursday 8 June 2023 — 20h30 — Wiener Festwochen, Wenen
  5. Friday 9 June 2023 — 20h30 — Wiener Festwochen, Wenen
  6. Saturday 10 June 2023 — 20h30 — Wiener Festwochen, Wenen
  7. Friday 16 June 2023 — 20h00 — PACT Zollverein, Essen
  8. Saturday 17 June 2023 — 20h00 — PACT Zollverein, Essen

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