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Jan Lauwers

JAN LAUWERS  

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below is a list of Jan Lauwers's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Deer House, The         Isabella's Room

Deer House, The

Synopsis:
the death of a Needcompany member's brother, journalist Kerem L., who was killed while covering the war in Kosovo, is the factual seed from which springs this wildly imaginative performance work. a U.S. premiere, it is the third installment of Sad Face | Happy Face, visionary Belgian-Flemish director Jan Lauwers's trilogy on human nature (the first, Isabella's room, played in BaM's 2004 Next Wave Festival; the second is the Lobster Shop). the Deer House centers around a group of international performers and artists faced with the increasingly harsh reality of the world they travel with their productions.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
BAM Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217    05 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Needcompany

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Isabella's Room

Synopsis:
Belgium group Needcompany arrive at the Tramway with a fierce two-hour story whose central character is a fat, blind old woman of 89 who flouts the petty body-fascism of our time by remaining erotically alive and kicking. Inspired by the personal experience of writer/director Jan Lauwers. the show tells the life-story of a female alter-ego, Isabella Morandi, who grows up believing that her real father is a desert prince from Africa, and who inherits a strange room in Paris filled with thousands of African objects. it's the landscape of this room that forms Lauwers's unforgettable set; and in it, Isabella lives out a life filled with transgressive sexual adventure, and the gradual unveiling of old secrets and lies. the most disturbing aspect of the show is its apparent acceptance of a exoticising colonial attitude to Africa and Africans. But this is a fine, troubling and radical show, all the same.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
Play by Jan Lauwers with material by Anneke Bonnema; translated by Gregory Ball, Monique Nagielkpf And Olivier Taymans; music by Hans Petter Dahl And Maarten Seghers; Lyrics by Jan Lauwers And Anneke Bonnema

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Needcompany

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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