theater  | grande salle | running time around 2 h | French premiere

tuesday 13 december 2011 at 20 h 30
wednesday 14 december 2011 at 19 h 30

by Arne Sierens

A city perched at the very top of a mountain. A monumental set. Seven struggling actors carrying on their shoulders the statue of Saint Blood. Three musicians accompany them. Arne Sierens, the Flemish theatre director, an Associate Artist of La Filature, presents a joyous, profound, living piece which questions our roots and our future. Who is this small human community which continues with this tradition, year after year? The procession, a major component of the piece, is both the pivotal point and the metaphor for a political and metaphysical reflection about our lives and the way we live them. It also allows each member of the audience to pause for a moment in the urgency of the modern world, to ask him- or herself what still unites us today when everything around us isolates and separates us. For some of us it is faith, for others it is tradition. And for the men who speak to us and to each other onstage, laughing, yelling at each other, suffering – it is a nostalgia for a time long gone, a time when a man could earn his living by working on the land.

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set Guido Vrolix / live music: guitar, electronic gear Jean-Yves Evrard / percussion Eric Thielemans / double bass Sébastien Boisseau / with Titus De Voogdt, Johan Heldenbergh, Wouter Hendrickx, Joris Hessels, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Dominique Van Malder, Tom Vermeir

Production Cie Cecilia / KC De Werf, Bruges / Theater Antigone. Coproduction Maastricht 2018. With support from the Flemish community of Belgium / the province of West Flanders / the city of Ghent. Thanks to the Flemish Fund of Letters. Premiere October 2011. Arne Sierens is an Associated Artist of La Filature, Scène nationale – Mulhouse.