16.05.2017 – 21.05.2017 / 06.00 p.m. and 08:30 p.m.
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Cinéma Marivaux
Boulevard Adolphe Maxlaan, 98 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Theatre play
Endgame
Can art change the world? For Tania Bruguera, the answer is yes. Famous for her uncompromising work combining activities, performances and installations, the Cuban artist and activist questions, often in connection with her homeland’s turbulent history, the control that political and economic power exerts on our everyday lives. Her work deals with individual experience as a reflection of a collective history and memory. Her actions encourage the audience to confront themselves with notions of anxiety, frailty and dependence. At the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bruguera is creating a piece for theatre for the first time. Endgame is a staging of the famous one-act play by Samuel Beckett, a post-apocalyptic play on death and despair in its purest form. For Beckett, there was nothing funnier than unhappiness. Building on this momentum, Bruguera reveals a play about domination, power and the limits of our limitless freedom that is universal in scope.
Direction: Tania Bruguera
Text:End Game by Samuel Beckett
Architects: Dotan Gertler Studio
With: Brian Mendes, Jess Barbagallo
Voices: Jacob Roberts, Chloe Brooks
Light design:Rui Monteiro
Sound design: Rui Lima & Sérgio Martins
Sound engineer: Pedro Lima
Sound recording: Luke Martinez
Direction assistant: Mitchell Polonsky
Technical direction: Patrícia Gilvaia
Production: BoCA Biennial (Lisbon/Porto)
Production direction: Ana Rita Osório
Executive production: Francisca Aires
Thanks to: John Romão, Christophe Slagmuylder, Philippe Quesne, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard College TDM, James Stanley, Achy Obejas, Tricia Van Eyck & MCA Chicago, Bob Wilson & The Watermill Center, Estudio Bruguera, New York City Players, Nicholas Elliot, Katiana Rangel, Regina Vorria, Alessandra Saviotti
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Hotel Marivaux
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, São João National Theatre (Porto), Colectivo 84 (Lisbon), Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Nanterre), Festival d’Automne à Paris, International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Estudio Bruguera
With the support of: Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, in the framework of the New Settings programme