Oedipus / bêt noir

DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY & SCENOGRAPHY
Wim Vandekeybus

TEXT
Jan Decorte

CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Wim Vandekeybus, Ricardo Ambrozio, Elko Blijweert, Guy Dermul, Elena Fokina, Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir, Máté Mészáros, Bénédicte Mottart, Jeroen Stevens, Dymitry Szypura, Willy Thomas, Roland Van Campenhout, Carly Wijs, Zebastián Méndez Marín, Aymara Parola, Luke Jessop

ALSO PERFORMED BY (GERMAN VERSION)
Birgit Walter, Renato Schuch, Torsten Schnick, Ralf Harster

ALSO CREATED WITH
Dawid Lorenc, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo

ORIGINAL MUSIC (LIVE)
Elko Blijweert, Jeroen Stevens, Roland Van Campenhout

ARTISTIC ASSISTENT & DRAMATURGE
Greet Van Poeck

MOUVEMENT ASSISTENT
Iñaki Azpillaga

DRAMATURGE COLOGNE
Götz Leineweber

LIGHTING DESIGN
Francis Gahide, Wim Vandekeybus

SOUND DESIGN
Benjamin Dandoy, Antoine Delagoutte

STYLING
Isabelle Lhoas
ASSISTED BY
Frédérick Denis

ATELIER STYLING
Lieve Meeussen, Stephanie Croibien, Isabelle De Cannière

TECHNICAL COORDINATION
Benjamin Dandoy

STAGE MANAGER
Davy Deschepper

LIGHTING ON TOUR
Francis Gahide

SOUND ON TOUR
Benjamin Dandoy, Antoine Delagoutte

PRODUCTION
Ultima Vez & KVS (Brussels, BE)

CO-PRODUCTION
Schauspiel Köln (Cologne, DE), Les Théâtres de la Ville (Luxembourg, LU)

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Le Maillon (Strasbourg, FR)

In Oedipus / bêt noir Wim Vandekeybus is once again tackling Jan Decorte’s very personal and contrary 1999 version of Oedipus. An impressive cast of 16 actors, dancers and musicians present the tragic myth of this born anti-hero, who unknowingly murders his father and marries his mother.

Jan Decorte’s compact script gives Vandekeybus the opportunity to convert subconscious tensions into dance and music. The script starts at a point after the calamity has already taken place. Vandekeybus inserts wordless visual flashbacks between direct spoken passages. Vandekeybus: ‘It would be great to make a full-length film of Bêt noir one day. In fact it’s already a perfect film script. Bêt noir is a blast. It’s precisely because Jan writes so compactly that I have the time to do other things in the production; you can do what you like with it.

Vandekeybus himself plays the part of Oedipus, alongside the actors Cary Wijs, Guy Dermul and Willy Thomas.