Mount Olympus

It’s an exceptional project, even for Jan Fabre with his great wealth of experience of crossing artistic frontiers: for 24 hours, 27 performers will dance, act, sweat, love, suffer, sleep and dream their way through the myths of ancient Greece. As it was in ancient Athens, the theatre will once again become an exceptional state, a political sphere, an almost spiritual time-travel for performers and audience alike. On a stream of images, Fabre will carry his spectators through a performance between waking and sleeping, between dream and reality. We will meet Medea, Antigone, Dionysus and other heroes in all their libidinosity and archaism.

Belgian visual artist, director and author Jan Fabre has been among the most important protagonists of the international art and theatre world for 30 years. Time and its excesses have often been his subject: His eight-hour show “This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen” brought real pain, real exhaustion onto the stage in 1982 and revolutionized the theatre. “Mount Olympus” will see its premiere at Foreign Affairs after a twelve-month rehearsal period and will unify all aspects of his work to date.

 

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