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Ontroerend Goed

ONTROEREND GOED

  
Nationality:    Belgian
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Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group of international renown. The group is made of young creators who explore the space between theatre and performance, writing their own texts from a strong basic concept and adapting familiar formats from various media. From sensorial experiences with blindfolded, individual audience members, over anarchistic teenage performances up to shows that profoundly explore what it means to be a theatre-goer, the group continues to create work that is equally challenging and treacherously shallow. A lot of contemporary plays cannot be experienced unless you've attended them and many of those performances are hard to transcribe on paper, because of their visual and physical nature. Of course, it's always possible to make a video recording, but watching that is a diminished experience. Although Ontroerend Goed embrace the 'nowness' of theatre and its visual and physical possibilities, the group wanted to take an extra step to share its work.

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         All That Is Wrong         Audience         Fight Night         Game Of You, A         History of Everything, A         Internal         Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen         Shanks         Sirens         Smile Off Your Face, The         Teenage Riot         Under the Influence         XXXO

All That Is Wrong

All That Is Wrong
In Once and For All. . . she burned Barbies. In Teenage Riot she saw adults as caged animals. Koba Ryckewaert is now 18 and knows things are wrong in the world. She just needs to get a grip on them. Shes better at writing than talking, so she draws. What can she do to resolve things? Neither everything, nor nothing. And she will face it all alone. She will make choices, only to stick to them. From the award-winning team behind Once and For All. . . and Teenage Riot comes the third part in their trilogy about growing up.

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text by Koba Rykewaert, created by Alexander Devreindt in collaboration with Joeri Smet and Zach Hatch. Third part of the Teenage Trilogy.

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Ontroerend Goed, Border Project, Drum Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions, Laika

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Audience

Audience
In this marathon of theatrical surprises, four actors turn a camera onto the audience and examine what it means to be a viewer.

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created by Alexander Devriendt in collaboration with Joeri Smet and Maria dafneros, Tiemen Van Haver, matthieu SYS and Aaron De Keyzer

1st Produced:
Vooruit, Gent, BE    15 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed, Border Project, Drum Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions

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Genre:
multimedia 65 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fight Night

Fight Night
Five performers. Five Rounds. Your vote. One survivor. Belgiums multiple Fringe First-winning company Ontroerend Goed, and Australias the Border Project put the power into your hands to vote for your favourite candidate amongst our five actors in an immersive exploration into the intricacies and traps of voting systems and mediatized democracy. Fight Night makes elections a theatrical game. t

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devised by Alexander Devriendtand in collaboration with Angelo Tijssens, Sophie Cleary, David Heinrich, Roman Vaculik and Charlotte De Bruyne

1st Produced:
Vooruit, Gent, BE    10 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed, Border Project, Drum Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions, Vooruit

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Genre:
contemporary, devised 1 hour 15 minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Game Of You, A

Game Of You, A
ne-on-one labyrinth of mirrors and projections. A Single visitor is guided through rooms and corridors, where he meets both real and virtual people, who gradualyy create a character out of him or her, based on the projections of others as well as their own. It is about subjectivity of self-image and how the world is a project of our own experience.

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created by Charlotte De Bruyne, Kristof Coenen, Maria Dafneros, Eden Falk, Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Nicolaas Leten, Aurelie Lannoy and Alexander Devriendt. Third Part of the Personal Trilogy

1st Produced:
KC Belgie, Hasselt, BE    29 Jan 2010

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed

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History of Everything, A

History of Everything, A
Now, inspired by Darwin and Dawkins on the theory of evolution, by cosmology and the realisation that we're but a tiny dot on the timeline, A History of Everything spins backwards to the first fiery bang before leaping to our possible hereafters. A profound rollercoasting journey, this production will make you treasure your place in the history of everything.

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created by Alexander Devriendt in collaboration with Charlotte De Bruyne, Nathalie Verbeke, Tahki Saul, Cameron Goodall, Joeri Smet.

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, AU    13 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed

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Genre:
piece 90 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Internal

Internal
Five spectators versus five performers . . . looking for a partner. 'Internal' explores how intimate you can get within 25 minutes one-on-one. Drinks and mandolins accompany a game of give and take; speed-dating meets group therapy.

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created by Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Nicolaas Leten, Aurelie Lannoy and Alexander Devriendt. Second Part of the Personal Trilogy

1st Produced:
KC Belgie, Hasselt, BE    14 Sep 2007

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed andKC Belgie

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Genre:
25 min Piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen

Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
Here's what the company says about this show: "Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen is a mind-blowing and potent look at adolescence through the eyes of 13 astoundingly talented teenagers. In keeping with their collaborative approach, Ontroerend Goed, KOPERGIETERY and Richard Jordan Productions developed the play with creative input from the teen performers."
- nytheatre.com

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Text by Alexander Devriendt And Joeri Smet in collaboration with the cast, And with fragments of Sum by David Eagleman. First part of Teenage trilogy

1st Produced:
Kopergietery, Gent, BE    25 Apr 2008

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Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Shanks

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Sirens

Synopsis:
We are the weaker sex. Were goddesses, muses, amazons and warrior queens. We cant control our feelings. We bleed once a month, because we deserve it. We cry, sulk and suffer inexplicable mood swings. Were little princesses. We need a man. We all have oversensitive antennae and they hurt. We are either whores or saints, reading signs in everything. We like to provoke but we dont fully understand the impact. Were good liars, use our bodies to get on in life, argue that its impossible to understand if youre not a woman. Were Sirens. And the stage is ours.

Notes:
written and performed by Karolien De Bleser, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aurelie Lannoy, Marjan De Schutter, Anemone Valcke, Verona Verbakel

1st Produced:
Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed, Drum-Plymouth, Vooruit, Richard Jordan, Big in Belgium, Summerhall

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Genre:
International, Performance art, 1 hour 20 minutes

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Smile Off Your Face, The

Smile Off Your Face, The
Enter a titillating world of scents and sounds, sharpen your instincts and allow yourself to lose control. Sit in a wheelchair, put on a blindfold and indulge your imagination, as Ontroerend Goed digs into your pleasures, fears, desires and memories. Once you take the plunge and relinquish control, you'll be taken on some very personal and intimate adventures - beautiful, confronting and surreal.

Notes:
created by Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Bob Stoop, Aurelie Lannoy and Alexander Devriendt. First Part of the Personal Trilogy

1st Produced:
De Singel, Antwerp, BE    30 Jan 2004

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed

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Teenage Riot

Teenage Riot
Eight youngsters shut themselves off because they feel like it. they don't know why exactly. In fact, they don't even know what they want or don't want but there's enough lust, frustration, irritation to find out what's shitty about the fact that they'll become someone like you.

Notes:
Text by Alexander Devriendt And Joeri Smet in collaboration with the cast. Second part of Teenage trilogy

1st Produced:
Kopergietery, Gent, BE    07 May 2010

Organisations:
Ontroerend Goed, Kopergietery, Drum Theatre Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

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Under the Influence

Synopsis:
Under the Influence casts the audience as wallflowers at a raucous party where they can look but not participate as a bunch of youngsters indulge in an orgy of simulated excess.
- Lyn gardner, Guardian

Notes:
piece by Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet And the performers

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Ontroerend Goed

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XXXO

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