Needcompany, Brussels, Belgium
Jan Lauwers & Needcompany:
THE DEER HOUSE
Director, script, set design: Jan Lauwers

17.09. 20:00
Yugoslav Drama Theatre
(stage “Ljuba Tadić”)
Duration : 120 min.

The third part of Jan Lauwers’s trilogy draws its inspiration from the violent death of war reporter Kerem, brother of Needcompany’s Tijen Lawton, during the armed conflict in Kosovo. The production revolves round the artist’s emotion in the face of the impossibility to influence history and its tragic developments. This play is not about the facts of war; rather, it portrays the absurd, which the humanity continues to repeat century after century.

Text, directing, set design: Jan Lauwers

Music:
Hans Petter Dahl, Maarten Seghers
Jan Lauwers (“Song for the deer house”)

With:
Grace Ellen Barkey
Anneke Bonnema
Hans Petter Dahl
Viviane De Muynck
Misha Downey
Julien Faure
Yumiko Funaya
Benoît Gob Eléonore Valère (replaces Tijen Lawton)
Maarten Seghers
Inge Van Bruystegem

Choreography:
The company
Costumes:
Lot Lemm
Lighting:
Ken Hioco, Koen Raes
Sound Design:
Dré Schneider
Production Manager:
Luc Galle
Assistant to the director:
Elke Janssens
Technicians:
Luc Galle, Ken Hioco
Assistant technicians:
Elke Van Der Kelen, Lise Lendais
Costume assistant:
Lieve Meeussen, Lise Lendais
Ears:
Denise Castermans
Set construction:
De Muur, Needcompany
Advice on deer
Dirk Claesen (Zephyr)
Surtitles:
Elke Janssens
English translation:
Gregory Ball
French translation:
Olivier Taymans
English language coach
Louise Chamberlain
French language coach:
Anny Czupper
Dramaturgical introduction:
Erwin Jans
Photography:
Maarten Vanden Abeele

Production:
Needcompany & Salzburger Festspiele

Coproduction:
Schauspielhaus Zurich, PACT Zollverein (Essen)
With the collaboration of deSingel (Antwerp), Kaaitheater (Brussels). With the support of the Flemish authorities.