After Yvonne, Prinses van Bourgondië Tibaldus is tackling a second play by Witold Gombrowicz: Het Huwelijk (The Marriage, 1947). Thus making the two flow into, collide and resonate with one another.
In Yvonne, the Prince rebelled against the Court by marrying the repugnant Yvonne. The rebellion failed; the bride did not survive it. In Het Huwelijk, the Prince goes a step further in this rebellion. He wants to oust the administration, the established ‘Order’, by becoming King himself. While the Prince attempts to make his position permanent through marriage inside the palace, outside the walls of the palace a war has apparently broken out, but nobody knows for certain whether it’s really going on or not. Tibaldus intensifies the musicality of the play by combining Gombrowicz’s textual motifs with melodies from Flemish Polyphony.
And what does it matter if, individually, everyone is sober-minded, level-headed and sensible, when all of us together are a gigantic lunatic that furiously lashes out, roars, kicks and tramples and blindly storms onward?
THE PRINCE It seems that war has broken out.
WLADZIO It would seem so.
THE PRINCE But you’re not sure?
WLADZIO Oh, what can you be sure of? You know, Henry, it’s almost as if you can’t believe anybody around here… Everything is concocted in a way, fake.
from Witold Gombrowicz’s The Marriage
Het Huwelijk is a shrewd play about authenticity and the responsibility that goes along with speech.
"This is the right play at the right moment: Het Huwelijk shows that people are responsible for everything they say, and gives a contemporary twist to a seventy-year old drama in these politically correct times."
text
- Witold Gombrowicz
translation
- Paul Beers
by
- Timeau De Keyser
- Hans Mortelmans
- Simon De Winne
director
- Timeau De Keyser
performance
- Simon De Winne
- Hans Mortelmans
- Ferre Marnef
- Lieselotte De Keyzer
- Katrien Valckenaers
- Hendrik Van Doorn
- Sander De Winne
- Lieven Gouwy
vocals
- Sander De Winne
- Simon De Winne
- Lieven Gouwy
- Katrien Valckenaers
vocal guide
- Sander De Winne
technician
- Marie Vandecasteele
coproduction
- P.U.L.S. - Project for Upcoming Artists for the Large Stage
- Toneelhuis
- tibaldus
with the support of
- CAMPO
- Kaap
- Tax Shelter maatregel v/d Belgische Federale Overheid
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