Het Zuidelijk Toneel creates theatre. Artistic director Piet Menu and a diverse group of theater makers from the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium) have built an open, engaging and multifaceted theater company. The best makers under one roof. Het Zuidelijk Toneel and its makers are bound by an inherent drive to enter into dialogue with the audience. Challenging, evocative. Our work takes place in the real world, and the real world is part of our art making process. Our central theme: connection to The Other and how we see ourselves within that reflection. HZT has been based in Tilburg since 2010. Het Zuidelijk Toneel is a national theatre company with a focus on the Brabant Region of the Netherlands.
Meet the Millennials
Europe and Asia may know cultural differences, mostly we share common ground as we try to live the good life. How do we deal with progressive ideas on love and sex, while committing to traditional community values? And how do we face the future that keeps on closing in as robotics take over daily life? The performance play is a combination of film footage, documentary, manga animations, storytelling and the most unlikely encounters with artists, scientists, social activists, students and professors.
Meet the Millennials inspires. It connects stories of daily life, work, education, artificial intelligence, emancipation and individual happiness in megacities. Lucas De Man shows the mind blowing effects of radical, fast forward thinking change. It is the story of a taboo breaking generation in East and West.
De Man in Europe
For one month, Lucas and his team travelled through cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Turkey and Greece. They spoke with historians about some of Europe’s great historic visionaries such as Jheronimus Bosch, Erasmus, Thomas More and Luther as well as with contemporary creators: artists, creative minds and socially creative people in a wide sense. They are all researching new ways to form a society; to live together in this time of change. In De Man in Europe, Lucas creates a contrast between the current mindsets he encountered and those of the former transitory times; the change from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In those days, a generation of visionaries emerged in Europe. In the short time-span of no more than 70 years they formed the base of modern Europe. Lucas will guide you through the main insights and controversies of a new generation of Europeans.
In the press:
“Lucas De Man grabs his audience in a passionate way.” ★★★★ de Volkskrant
“De Man is a charming theatre personality with an opinionated view, who effortlessly guides his audience through philosophical or scientific, sometimes very complex, discourses.” Trouw
“Very rarely does a show cause such insight into current affairs.” Cultuurpers
This performance is part of the cultural program of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union. It is coproduced by Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Company New Heroes in collaboration with Europe By People, JB500 and ECF.
De Man in Europe is part of the art project in Search of Europe. Discovering the Self. This project is coproduced by Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Company New Heroes, in collaboration with several (international) partners. For more information please see www.insearchofeurope.eu
Zvizdal
Between 2011 and 2016 Berlin follows Pétro and Nadia in an effort to portray the evolution of their story over the years. How does one bear years of isolation? There is the lack of electricity, of running water and heating. There are the superstitions, there is the vodka, the muttering, the cursing and praying and singing, the toothaches, the ailments of old age, the 20-km walk to the nearest shop, the wait for someone from civilization.
Zvizdal draws a portrait of solitude, survival, poverty, hope and love between two elderly people in their eighties surrounded by colourless, odourless but omnipresent radiation.
Yellow Banana
Immerse yourself into the rich heritage of the yet unknown! Yellow Banana will bring to life the spirit of Eurasia.
‘I want to have fun, fun with myself, fun with you, fun with them and fun with us. A moment of freedom in a freaking world!’ Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Olivia Hyunsin Kim (Siegen/Germany, 1987) is a choreographer and performance artist. As ddanddarakim she collaborates with various artists.
ACT
Beckett’s Stories and Texts for Nothing (1946-1952) – about an old man and his impossible quest to find a place for himself in the world – forms the fundament of ACT, with renowned actor Johan Leysen, who stages the texts of Beckett. Before and after the performance visitors can visit the video-installation and the lecture (on video) of Jean Paul Van Bendegem, professor of logic and philosophy of science.
With this trail, artist and theatre director Kris Verdonck explores the fascination he shares with Beckett for technology and the growing battle between man and machine. Is there still a place for mankind in a world where machines are becoming even more sophisticated in their capability of replacing humans? A world that mankind itself is leading to a successful destruction?
TAL.kshow
A philosophical, absurdist wordless composition all about words The average adult has a
vocabulary of 40,000 words. These words enable us to express ourselves, communicate
and give meaning to things. At the same time, words are often limiting or even confusing.
In TAL., the Flemish-Dutch theatre makers that make up BOG. have teamed up with
composer Jens Bouttery and a number of bilingual guest actors to dissect the most
important tool human beings have at their disposal: language. TAL. is an attempt to talk
about language without explicitly naming everything. Forming a ten strong choir, they go
in search of multilingual polyphony. Together they present a philosophical, absurd and
occasionally Dadaist concert in which language – which can connect us just as much as it
can divide us – is taken apart and put back together in wholly new ways.