CHRONIC
CHRONIC
Contemporary masculinity training programmes, survival retreats and ‘wild man’ brotherhoods promise renewal through discipline, hierarchy and toughness. They draw on the chivalric ideal: men as warriors who must prove themselves and control their emotions.
In CHRONIC, a figure enters a commune inspired by Arthur’s Round Table. Jousting, sword fighting and wearing armour initially seem part of that same ritual of hardening. But what if these rituals could mean something completely different? Instead of being hardened, the initiator is dismantled and reassembled, according to laws that lie outside the ordinary world.
What begins as a chivalric quest thus becomes an exploration of bodily care and control. How closely are the two linked?
Concept Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca
Performance & choreography Tibau Beirnaert & Milan Mitera
Direction Laurens Aneca
Visual design & projections Loes Vanneste
Costume design Tobias van Nieuwenhove
Music Seppe Vande Veire
Lighting Kato Ooms
360° scenography Spacemakers
Outside eye Seppe Decubber & Kopano Maroga
Props & wigs Tibau Beirnaert
Executive producer detheatermaker
Co-production Monty, KAAP, PLAN Broedplaats ’s-Hertogenbosch, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond & Perpodium
With the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
Partners deAuteurs, Antigone, laGeste, CAMPO, BUDA & Cement Festival
18/03/27
14/04/27
15/04/27
16/04/27
KAAP Brugge
21/04/27
22/04/27
14/10/27
