Holland Festival
An explosion in a crowded market square claimed 24 lives, including seven children. When the village commemorates that tragedy a year later, a little boy falls out of a window and a girl disappears before 76 days in a dungeon. This leads to a series of acts of violence that sometimes seem all too recognisable. In Jan Lauwers' story 'Marketplace 76', happiness is something very thin. The performance he made of it with his internationally renowned company 'Needcompany' is above all an indictment of a humanity that is less and less able to look outside its own world.
In this 36-minute conversation, Jan Lauwers (56) talks about his highly political, but also highly artistic motivations, and about the success he has enjoyed for years now with an earlier production, 'Isabella's Room'. That play, also written by him, after 250 performances worldwide, will soon even be played at Tien An Men square in Beijing.
But he also talks about his admiration for Jan Joris Lamers, a Dutch director and theatre guru who stubbornly remains, or is kept, in anonymity.
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