With: Simon Beeckaert, Elisabeth Klinck, Willem Lenaerts, Milan Schudel, Melvin Slabbinck, Joppe Tanghe, Karin Tanghe, Wietse Tanghe, Imran Alam, Stanislas Bruynseels, Judith Engelen, Flora Van Canneyt / Conception and direction: Miet Warlop / Text: Miet Warlop advised by Jeroen Olyslaegers / Dramaturgy: Giacomo Bisordi / Music: Maarten Van Cauwenberghe / Costume design: Carol Piron – Filles à Papa / Lighting design: Dennis Diels / Sound technician: Bart Van Hoydonck, Raf Willems / Lighting technician: Laurent Ysebaert
Miet Warlop / NTGent
One Song. Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV
- Performance
- Theatre
English /
approx. 60 mins.
Miet Warlop, who will design the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026, returns to HAU with her powerful performance. A mixture of concert and live competition, including commentators and cheerleaders: twelve performers explore their limits in a mesmerising ritual involving song lyrics, images and objects, oxygen and sweat.
Having received an invitation from NTGent, Miet Warlop is the fourth artist who has developed a work for “Histoire(s) du Théâtre”, following in the footsteps of Milo Rau, Faustin Linyekula and Angélica Liddell. What is the history of theatre makers? With “One Song”, Warlop formulates an answer as only she can. Twelve performers take the stage for a mesmerising ritual about farewell, life and death, hope and resurrection.
Somewhere in between a concert and a contest, the temporary becomes the universal and the personal becomes something collective. That is the subtext of “One Song”: how one song can give meaning to a whole society. Unity in diversity.
The twelve performers go to extremes together: through song text, images and objects, oxygen and sweat, they evoke our human condition. Again and again, someone stands up to push their boundaries. They defy time and express a deep human need: the search for the moment in which we can transcend our thinking body.
The past is the present is the future. And as human beings, we are, willingly and unwillingly, gladiators fighting against time time. The need for community makes us vulnerable and tragic creatures at the same time. We are vulnerable in our physical limitations, despite the efforts we make to strengthen our bodies. And we are tragic in our existential loneliness, the result of an awareness that is peculiar to mankind.
Cast
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Dates
Past
Credits
Production: NTGent, Miet Warlop/Irene Wool vzw. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne (FR), Tandem SN Douai (FR), Festival d’Avignon (FR), La Comédie de Valence (FR), Teatre Lliure Barcelona (ES), deSingel Antwerp (BE). Supported by: Flemish Government, City of Ghent, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government. With the help of: Frans Brood productions. Thanks to: Representation of Flanders in Germany.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
