line-up
eric sleichim music and direction
peter verhelst text
jan versweyveld scenography
katrijn baeten assistent scenography and video
veerle vaes assistent direction
chris snik costumes
ACTORS AND MUSICIANS
hugo koolschijn pier paolo
kitty courbois the mother and signora castelli
jonathan de ceuster the deceased brother and ninetto (counter tenor)
adolescents
BL!NDMAN[4×4]vox soprano sarah abrams, mezzo ana naqe, tenor dick vandaele, bas thomas vanlede
BL!NDMAN[4×4]strings violins pieter jansen, elke vandeverre, alto marijn thissen, cello romek maniewski
CREW
veerle francke production management
helga van den bossche assistent production
roel ghesquière technical coordination
jo thielemans sound technician
robby cluytens light and theater technician
benjamin timmermans assistant technician
Intra Muros is a production by Muziektheater Transparant and BL!NDMAN, coproduced by toneelgroep amsterdam and Concertgebouw Brugge in collaboration with Kaaitheater and the Grame at Lyon (centre national de création musicale) for the development of the electronics for soundmanipulation and spacialisation.
Thanks to Fabien Gérard and Tristero.
BL!NDMAN is supported by the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. BL!NDMAN [sax] play Selmer Paris Saxophones. BL!NDMAN [drums] is supported by Muremo, distributor of Bergerault Percusssion Instruments.
INTRA MUROS
music-theatre by Eric Sleichim / Peter Verhelst for two actors, counter-tenor, vocal quartet and string quartet
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This music-theatre is based on a fascination for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, the violent Salò, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma. |
Intra Muros shows this controversial poet, film-maker and novelist while directing his last film and, just a few days before his death, holding forth passionately on politics, violence, power, utopia, arbitrariness, sex, life and death.
His mother listens carefully but slips unnoticeably into the role of the ex-prostitute in Salò.
Eight young musicians play the children of left-wing intellectuals who suffer the vengeance of fascism in the film. They have become one with their instruments to such an extent that they give voice to the insides of their bodies.
An angelic voice brings comfort, reviving memories of PasoliniÂ’s brother, who died young, and of his lost lover Ninetto.
The issue Pasolini exposed so extremely in 1975 is still painfully topical: absolute and arbitrary power over the individual … in this film, Pasolini, who denounced the movement towards the right in Italy, wanted to hold up a merciless mirror to society.
In Intra Muros, Pasolini is perhaps not directing his last film, but his own death.
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INTRA MUROS played among others on the following locations:
- 2007
- BRUGGE / BRUGES - concertgebouw
- HAARLEM (NL) - toneelschuur
- ZWOLLE (NL) - reijd schouwburgzaal van odeon
- BRUSSEL / BRUXELLES - kaaitheater
- ROTTERDAM (NL) - rotterdamse schouwburg
- EINDHOVEN (NL) - stadsschouwburg eindhoven
- ANTWERPEN / ANVERS - bourla schouwburg
- TONGEREN - cc velinx
- AMSTERDAM (NL) - stadsschouwburg
- GENT / GAND - nt gent
BL!NDMAN contact info
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Sainctelettesquare 18-19 B-1000 Brussels, Belgium +32 2 201 59 47 |
contact: general and artistic direction: management: M +32 473 29 98 91 production and communication: M +32 493 18 64 31 |
BL!NDMAN is supported by the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. BL!NDMAN [sax] play Selmer Paris Saxophones. BL!NDMAN [drums] is supported by Muremo, distributor of Bergerault Percusssion Instruments.