SUN-SET

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,

SUN-SET is a performance for the black box, consisting of a sequence of “cosmogonic moments”: pivot points between nothing and something.

Cosmogonies, or narratives of genesis, have taken on all sorts of forms throughout time, but their creators have spun them all around a common factor: light. In SUN-SET the spectator finds himself in impenetrable darkness and blinding light, but above all the eyes try to get a grip on light surfaces and volumes in a kind of sfumato, where light and darkness subtly flow into one another.

SUN-SET begins in a space in which gradually Eigengrau occurs, a dark gray visual plane that humans perceive in the complete absence of light. The boundary between the light that is there and the light we think we see is faded. For what is beyond our capacity to imagine, ‘nothingness’ for example, we inevitably invent colors and stories. Precisely these colors and stories SUN-SET wants to evoke and examine, from pre-cosmic abysses to the specks that appear when we have looked into the sun for too long.

19.10.22

21:00 NTGent, Ghent (BE)
19.10.22

18:30 NTGent, Ghent (BE)
18.10.22

22:00 NTGent, Ghent (BE)
18.10.22

20:00 NTGent, Ghent (BE)
04.04.22

Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL)
11—12.02.22

Beyond the Black Box, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) CANCELLED (COVID-19)
15—17.10.21

Troubleyn, Antwerp (BE)
08—10.05.21

Auawirleben Festival, Bern (CH)
12—13.02.21

Beyond the Black Box, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) CANCELLED (COVID-19)
24—26.09.20

Love at first Sight, V36 Toneelhuis, Antwerp (BE)
18—20.09.20

Love at first Sight, V36 Toneelhuis, Antwerp (BE)
06—09.02.20

V36 Toneelhuis, Antwerp (BE)
15—16.11.19

Playground, STUK, Leuven (BE)

Concept

Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost

Creation

Oshin Albrecht, Bosse Provoost, Ezra Veldhuis

Sound design

Benjamin Cools

Dramaturgy

Séba Hendrickx

Thanks to

Geert Belpaeme, Leontien Allemeersch, Jan Fedinger, Niels Antonissen, Henk Vandecaveye

Production

Toneelhuis, Kraagsteen

Coproduction

Playground (STUK & M, Leuven)

With the support of

Kunstencentrum Buda, Kaap, De School van Gaasbeek, Gouvernement, De tax shelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid, Casa Kafka Pictures, Tax shelter powered by Belfius

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