Desire - Jonge Harten
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Desire

Louis Janssens

  • Language

    Dutch

  • Admission

    <29 years €12,50
    >29 years €17,50

  • Duration

    60 minutes

  • Location

    Grand Theatre

  • Credits

    Text: Louis Janssens, Peter Seynaeve, Mourad Baaiz, Mick Galliot Fabré en Joshua Smits
    Play: Louis Janssens, Mourad Baaiz, Mick Galliot Fabré en Joshua Smits
    Direction: Peter Seynaeve
    Light plan & tech: Eva Dermul en Lies Van Loock
    Production leader: Lori Tuerlinckx
    Production: vzw Louis

    With support of: Monty, C-mine, CAMPO, De Brakke Grond, Theaterfestival Boulevard, deAuteurs en de Vlaamse Overheid

    With thanks to: Kaaitheater, Simon Baetens, Tim Taveirne, Elsemieke Scholte en Willem de Wolf

  • Viewing guide i

    PERFORMANCE

A hushed performance about the desire to experience something.

Desire takes place in the transition from night to day, from dark to light. The moment when possibilities become visible. What thoughts and doubts are at play during this so-called “blue hour”? The performance is located precisely at that moment of unfulfilled desire.

With a newly written text as a starting point, Louis Janssens is on stage with three actors. Four lonely souls take us into their personal thoughts, doubts, fears and desires. They share what they would normally not dare to show to each other. In Desire they do, only to discover that they are actually quite similar.

Desire is a quiet performance about the desire to experience something. To be loved, to be touched. The universal longing for connection is made tangible in a playful and personal way. The audience is taken into a recognizable and intimate world of thoughts.

“Beneath their yearning, the hole of incapacity grows larger and more poignant. In Desire, Janssens makes poetry of the desolate.” – Trouw ****

After the solo performance Serenade (selected for #nieuwjong of Het TheaterFestival 2021) and the duet Analoog with Willem de Wolf/De HOE (selection Het TheaterFestival and Nederlands Theater Festival 2023), Louis Janssens has now created the performance Desire with a group of young queer actors. It is the next step in creating performances that manage to portray a poetic and intimate as well as joyful and playful world.

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DEEPENING

FIELD

FIELD was created to strengthen the bond with young talent and to give both the artists and the festival the opportunity to support people in the longer term and to make their “dreams” come true. We focus in particular on students who we feel (after conversations and performances) connect themselves as creators with the world beyond. In a conscious, critical and idiosyncratic way.

PERFORMANCE

PREMIERE

ROUTE

STAGE

A program line in which we put creative young people on stage and in which you can participate in great masterclasses yourself. We ensure that you are pampered all day long and of course we close the day with a great party, by none other than Clash!

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