Wavelength
"This is why you need to see Wavelength: the tension, the resentment, the despair, but also the rapprochement and reconciliation are not merely described here – there are plenty of words for that – but are also brought to life. You see how polarisation and hatred sink their ugly claws into people’s flesh." - Pieter T'Jonck, pzazz
"The whole interplay of dissonant rhythms that come together and drift apart again is masterfully underpinned by Dimitri Andreas’s music and Niels Vanherpe’s sound design. Fluctuating tones burst forth as sirens, helicopters, or unsettling, almost nauseating background noise" - Elie Angiel, Etcetera
The heat is on.
Lucius and Haider dance a conversation — uncertain whether it will end as a duet or a duel. Beneath the surface, tensions simmer: clashing opinions, misunderstandings, sensitivities, and frustrations. They face each other with the only weapons they know —their words, and the language of dance. They listen, shout, and whisper through a charged pas-de-deux.
Their moderator: a synthesizer that amplifies, distorts, or harmonizes their voices.
One thing is clear: neither will leave until the conversation has run its full course —until they’ve truly heard, and felt, each other’s wavelength.
Because it’s necessary.
Because today, it’s fucking necessary.
Wavelength is the theatrical embodiment of a real conversation between Haider Al Timimi and Lucius Romeo-Fromm about our polarized world. One arrived in Belgium from Iraq; the other from the United States. Together, they share their concerns about the state of things — echo chambers, cancel culture, our cosmic insignificance, and the growing rift between worldviews that makes coexistence seem impossible.
From there, they dance in search for a possible answer.
Credits
- Production of Haider Al Timimi en Lucius Romeo-Fromm - Antigone
- Tekst, regie en spel Haider Al Timimi en Lucius Romeo-Fromm
- Dramaturgy Bart Capelle
- Scenography Stef Stessel
- Music Dimitri Andreas
- Costumes Andrea Kränzlin
- Final direction Renée Goethijn
- Internship direction assistant Özge Oldaç
- Sound design Niels Vanherpe
- Light design Jonas Lambrigts
- Visuals Véronique Bruyneel
- Production Antigone
- Coproduction Perpodium
- Supported by De Vlaamse overheid, de Stad Kortrijk, de Tax Shelter van de Belgische federale overheid via Cronos Invest
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