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Gemislukt

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Location Kortrijk - Antigone

November 15, 1902, Brussels. Leopold II and his entourage leave the church and get into three carriages. Standing in a cheering crowd, the Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino plans to kill the king, but as he reaches for his revolver, it gets caught in the lining of his coat. Two bullets shatter a window of the wrong carriage. Leopold II goes down in history as a colonial CEO and Rubino ends up in prison and never makes it into our collective memory. Wasted his shot.

Rubino, a man like an inefficient machine full of construction errors. Caught in an equally imperfect machine of political, social and emotional upheavals. Gemislukt is a performance about missed opportunities and the art of failure. Three seasoned players, Marijke Pinoy, Aurelie Di Marino and Ali Can Ünal, try to figure out  how Rubino reached the moment of his failed attempt. Like a creaking and sqeaking machine of rememberance, they (re)construct the life of a loser. A man marked by his lineage, his despair, his ideals and his delusions of grandeur.

Gemislukt is a celebration of the fault in the fool. An antidote to absolute power and the disease of efficiency. A musical and theatrical farce about idealists, opportunists, anarchists - and forgotten women.

Credits

  1. Production of Tom Dupont — Antigone
  2. Tekst en regie Tom Dupont
  3. Cast Marijke Pinoy, Aurelie Di Marino, Ali Can Ünal
  4. Music Karen Willems, Marc De Maeseneer
  5. Dramaturgy Bart Capelle
  6. Assistant Director Belachew Bila
  7. Coaching Haider Al Timimi
  8. Costumes Marij de Brabandere
  9. Lighting Jonas Lambrigts
  10. Sound Niels Vanherpe
  11. Production Antigone
  12. Coproduction Perpodium
  13. Supported by de Vlaamse Overheid, Literatuur Vlaanderen, de stad Kortrijk en de Tax Shelter van de Belgische federale overheid

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