PLAYWATCH is een meerjarige samenwerking tussen pzazz en Kaaitheater, Zinnema, KVS, Beursschouwburg en Kunstenfestivaldesarts. Met dit traag proces hopen we op termijn de recensiepraktijk in Brussel en Vlaanderen meer te diversifiëren, zowel qua stemmen als qua vormen van kritiek.
Onder begeleiding van Wouter Hillaert (pzazz) en Emilie Kabongo (KFDA) gaan negen jonge theaterliefhebbers nu al voor het derde voorjaar op rij kijken naar tien Brusselse voorstellingen uit de Brusselse partnerhuizen.
Vooraf maken we kennis met het hostende theater, achteraf praten we intensief na over wat we gezien hebben. Sinds dit voorjaar resulteert dit kijk- en discussietraject ook in losse recensies én een publieke podcast over elke voorstelling.
PLAYWATCH = Clée Jordier, Dario Rens, Laura Rahman, Tem Mirkazemiyan, Aziz Zeman, Abigail Gypens, Isabella Daffara, Luis Miranda en Hazel Lam.
Lees en beluister hieronder de vruchten van onze meertalige ontdekkingstocht door de Brusselse podiumkunsten.
Hier vind je onze audiobesprekingen van elke voorstelling, telkens door 3 of 4 andere Playwatchers. Of volg ons Spotify-kanaal.
Love from the End - Isabella Daffara over 'Liefde/Amour' van KVS
How far should we go for love before we can say we have tried everything? And what remains of us when love ends? These questions echo throughout 'Liefde/Amour', a performance by Pitcho Womba Konga in KVS, inspired by Brigitte Giraud’s novel 'L’amour est très surestimé' . Rather than telling a single story, the work unfolds as a collage of endings—fragments of love stories that reveal not only loss and separation, but also resilience, humour, and the possibility of beginning again. (lees meer)
Talking about sex without showing sex - Clée Jordier over 'Peekaboo' van Maxime Dreesen
The first time I heard about 'Peekaboo', the teaser read: “Drawing from non-binary cruising culture, Max Dreesen turns the stage into a sexual playground.” A sexual playground? In a theatre? That’s enough to set a few thoughts racing. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I half-feared something murky, maybe awkward. But it was neither. (lees meer)
An Anticatharctic Storyteller - Tem Mirkazemiyan over de solo 'Haribo Kimchi' van Jaha Koo
In 'Haribo Kimchi', Jaha Koo cooks for two audience members in his Korean street-food stall stage as he recounts his migration story. The screens beside him let him drift through dream and memory, accompanied by non-human creatures who narrate and sing with whimsy. It is sometimes sad, always funny, and in the absence of an emotional climax, we are left to reflect on its menacing irony. (lees meer)
The construction and implosion of violence - Luis Miranda over 'FRANK' van Cherish Menzo
Where does 'FRANK' begin and where does it end? Cherish Menzo invites us to an experience at the very limit between dance and theatre, which was presented at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and I had the chance to witness it with my PLAYWATCH peers. The result is this essayesque review, heavily based on its author’s feelings, a re-reading of Frankenstein, and Donna Haraway’s manifesto for cyborgs. (lees meer)
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