Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

The Winter’s Tale is the often avoided problem child in Shakespeare’s oeuvre. The individual storylines seem too confusing, the characters too many. The multidisciplinary collective Kuiperskaai decided to deal with this problem by resorting to brute editing and by declaring the tragedy of failure to be its main focus, if not its guiding principle. Director and author Lisaboa Houbrechts reassembled and interpreted the original text together with the collective. Within a fantastic universe, a story – wrested from the depths of sleep ¬– something between illusion and reality, passion and aggression, fairytale and nightmare unfolds anew.

Dutch with German Surtitles * Text, Adaptation text & direction: Lisaboa Houbrechts * Dramaturgy: Victor Lauwers * Scenography: Oscar van der Put * Music: Maxime Rouquart * Decor: Oscar van der Put in collaboration with:  Roeland van Trigt * Costume: Sietske Van Aerde * With: Sam Bogaerts, Seppe Decubber, Marjan De Schutter, Romy Louise Lauwers, Victor Lauwers, Lobke Leirens, Maxime Rouquart, Andrew Van Ostade * Light design: Pauwel Hertmans in collaboration with Ken Hioco * Sound: Milan De Wael * Technique: Matthias Van Dromme * A Kuiperskaai production * Coproduction: CAMPO, de School van Gaasbeek, Monty Kultuurfaktorij, Needcompany, Toneelhuis * With the support of Stad Gent.