YELLOW - THE SORROWS OF BELGIUM II: REX
Text by: Peter Van Kraaij & other sources
Directed by: Luk Perceval
Music: Sam Gysel
Dramaturgy: Peter van Kraaij, Steven Heene, Margit Niederhuber
Camera and editing: Daniel Demoustier
Set design: Annette Kurz
Assistant set design: Sammy Van den Heuvel
Costume design: Ilse Vandenbussche
Light design: Mark Van Denesse
Movement coach: Ted Stoffer
Direction assistant: Liesbeth Standaert
Production management: Els Jacxsens
Stage manager: Marijn Vlaeminck
Technical production management: Chris Vanneste
Sound technic: Bart Meeusen, Frederik Vanslembrouck
Stage technic: Eddy Deschepper, Ramon Blancquaert
Light technique: Sander Michiels
Dresser: Micheline D'Hertoge
Language coach: Elke De Brouwer
Audio post production:Ioana Mandrescu
Co-producers: Landestheater Niederösterreich Sankt Pölten (Austria), Le Manège Maubeuge (France)
With the support of The Belgian Tax Shelter
Translated into Romanian by: Sorina Tomulețiu
Cast: Peter Seynaeve, Chris Thys, Lien Wildemeersch, Bert Luppes, Maria Shulga, Oscar Van Rompay, Philip Leonhard Kelz, Valéry Warnotte
SYNOPSIS
In the trilogy The Sorrows of Belgium, Luk Perceval, resident director at NTGent, zooms in on three dark chapters in Belgium’s past. In part two, Yellow, he looks back on the Flemish collaboration during the Second World War on the basis of a new play by Peter van Kraaij, mixed with other texts.
1933-1936. A young generation dreams of a new world order. From 1941 onwards, many of them join the Nazi ideology and go to the Eastern Front. Were they misled?
Were they really that naive?
Performance presented in English, Dutch, French, German, with translation into Romanian and English
Date of premiere: 13.03.2021