Kris Verdonck’s End is a bleak, apocalyptic landscape through which humans and machines struggle, trapped in a continuous cycle that tests both audience, and theatrical form.
Urbanmag* spoke to Kris Verdonck about his work, and whether there’s hope for us yet…
Someone hands you a small piece of paper – a photograph of the Belgian flag, the pirate’s skull of another flag just visible through it. On the back is a letter from Anwar from Afghanistan, our official guide to ‘Belgium paradise – a small country with a big heart, where we as refugees and tourists can unite’. It says we will travel together, we will share this journey to find happiness all together, in a place where we will experience real cultural difference. You wait some more. Lees meer »
I read somewhere that to create this show you started by reading around 1000 speeches…?
I read speeches – and I watched them on Youtube – for a year, and I didn’t read anything else, apart from one Paul Auster novel! It was a commitment: every day I had to read some speeches. It’s the first time I’ve worked on my own, and I decided that instead of starting with a concept, I would read for a year, and sort the speeches I might be able to use into piles. I worked very intuitively. Lees meer »