A hybrid performance between dinner and concert in which excess, desire and consumption are central. Music, text and scenography merge into a sensory and confrontational experience. Guests take their seats. There is cooking, serving, tasting. But soon something shifts. Desire overtakes hunger. One more bite. One more sip. When does more become too much? Eat Me plays with excess and seduction, with the thin line between choice and surrender. The text by Dominique De Groen, directed by Aïda Gabriëls, is bittersweet and sticky. Composer Jonathan Bonny lets baroque and electronics merge together, carried by B'Rock - a fixture at deSingel - and a strong cast of performers. Gabriëls moves effortlessly between music, image, movement and literature. In Eat Me, she starts from the cult film La Grande Bouffe and questions what consuming means today - sensory and confrontational. In the transparent arena of :mentalKLINIK, a hybrid experience emerges between dinner, concert and shared intoxication. Pick your poison. À ta santé.
Performers
Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, dramaturgie | Aïda Gabriëls, concept, regie | Jonathan Bonny, compositie, arrangementen | Dominique De Groen, libretto | Maarten Van Mulken, kostuums | Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir, viool | Rebecca Huber, viool, altviool | Yukiko Murakami, fagot | Asako Ueda, luit, gitaar | B'Rock Orchestra, muzikale uitvoering | Blandine Coulon, creatie, spel | Astrid Vansteenkiste, technische ondersteuning | Korneel Moreaux, geluid | Timo Tembuyser, met dank aan | :mentalKLINIK, installatie en scenografie | Anne Van Es, licht, technische coördinatie | Matteo Sedda, choreografie | Casper Clausen, creatie, spel | Dimos De Beun, klavecimbel | Lena Meyskens, dramaturgie | Linde Carrijn, creatie, spel | Rudi Laermans, dramaturgie | Romain Dayez, creatie, spel
