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AUGUSTUS ergens op de vlakte

Olympique Dramatique, KVS, NTGent, Toneelhuis

AUGUSTUS ergens op de vlakte (August, Osage County) takes place somewhere on the vast plains of modern-day Oklahoma in August. It tells the story of the Weston family. A family of intelligent, sensitive people with an alarming knack for making each others’ lives impossible. When the father suddenly disappears without trace, the family gathers at the parental home to support each other... and unleash destruction.

The American author and actor Tracy Letts wrote the play August: Osage County in 2007. A year later it won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and it has since been made into a film with a star-studded cast that includes Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.

Together with the KVS Brussels and the Ghent-based NTGent, Olympique Dramatique bends this fantastic actors’ play to its will with the help of a first-rate cast: Els Dottermans, Frank Focketyn, Mieke De Groote, Sofie Decleir, Gilda De Bal, Mieke Verdin, Willy Thomas, Johan Van Assche, Geert Van Rampelberg, Ben Segers, Nona Buhrs et al. Stijn Van Opstal and Tom Dewispelaere are adapting and directing the play. Guy Cassiers is the designer and assistant director.

“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you got born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. And the good old family reunion, with picnic dinner under the maples, is very much like ping into the octopus tank at the aquarium.”

Robert Penn Warren, All The King’s Men

by and with

  • Olympique Dramatique

translation, editing and directing

  • Stijn Van Opstal
  • Tom Dewispelaere

author

  • Koen Haagdorens

text

  • Tracy Letts

performance

  • Frank Focketyn
  • Nona Buhrs
  • Mieke De Groote
  • Ben Segers
  • Sanne Samina Hanssen
  • Gilda De Bal
  • Geert Van Rampelberg
  • Els Dottermans
  • Marc Van Eeghem
  • Mieke Verdin
  • Willy Thomas
  • Sofie Decleir

design

  • Guy Cassiers
  • Thomas Walgrave
  • Stijn Van Opstal
  • Tom Dewispelaere

light design

  • Guy Cassiers
  • Thomas Walgrave

costume design

  • Ilse Vandenbussche

assistance of the director

  • Guy Cassiers

production

  • KVS
  • NTGent
  • Toneelhuis

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  2. Friday 24 October 2014 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  3. Saturday 25 October 2014 — 21h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  4. Wednesday 29 October 2014 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  5. Thursday 30 October 2014 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  6. Friday 31 October 2014 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  7. Saturday 1 November 2014 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  8. Sunday 2 November 2014 — 15h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
  9. Wednesday 5 November 2014 — CC Brugge/Stadsschouwburg, Brugge
  10. Friday 7 November 2014 — Grote zaal ITA, Amsterdam
  11. Saturday 8 November 2014 — Grote zaal ITA, Amsterdam
  12. Monday 10 November 2014 — Chassé Theater, Breda
  13. Wednesday 12 November 2014 — CCHA, Hasselt
  14. Friday 14 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
  15. Saturday 15 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
  16. Sunday 16 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
  17. Tuesday 18 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
  18. Wednesday 19 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
  19. Thursday 20 November 2014 — NTGent/Schouwburg, Gent
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  22. Monday 24 November 2014 — 30CC/Schouwburg, Leuven
  23. Tuesday 25 November 2014 — 30CC/Schouwburg, Leuven
  24. Wednesday 26 November 2014 — CC Zwaneberg, Heist-Op-Den-Berg
  25. Friday 28 November 2014 — Warande/Schouwburg, Turnhout
  26. Wednesday 3 December 2014 — KVS - BOL, Brussel
  27. Thursday 4 December 2014 — KVS - BOL, Brussel
  28. Friday 5 December 2014 — KVS - BOL, Brussel
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  32. Friday 12 December 2014 — KVS - BOL, Brussel
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  34. Tuesday 16 December 2014 — 20h00 — Bourlaschouwburg, Antwerpen
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