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Organiek Mechaniek Gedachtegang (BE)
  • + 4 years
  • LocationDifferent locations
  • PriceFree
  • Info

    Sat 19.07 & Sun 20.07 – 16:00 & 19:00 (Coyendanspark)

    PLANEET SIERK WIJKT: Wed 23.07 - 16:00 (Rerum-Novarumplein)

    40min.

About the performance

A choir that doesn’t show up, a theater technician, a bicycle salesman … 

Today is the day. The Drongen jubilee choir is finally coming to perform! The audience is ready and eager. But then: silence. Not a tuning fork to be heard. No trace of the choir. The stage technician tries to steal the show, but his walkie-talkie keeps barking him back into the backstage. 

A bicycle saleswoman looking for an audience rolls onto the stage. She is perfectly prepared: the flyers plastered, smile practiced, bell polished, and sales text rehearsed. With such a large audience surely, she must get her bike sold today? 

What follows is a delightful, chaotic dance of miscommunication and awkwardness, in which two completely different characters discover each other, and the bicycle takes on a central role. The handlebars live their own

life the pedals refuse service, and it seems as if the bike would rather play than ride. 

‘Organiek Mechaniek’ is an almost wordless slapstick performance full of acrobatics, music, circus bikes and friendship in the making. What begins as pure chaos grows into a wondrous encounter where mechanics suddenly becomes music, and everything that was stuck finally starts moving. 

Come… and see how everything goes wrong – and yet turns out right. 

Credits

Concept: Jakobe Geens
Play: Jakobe Geens and Josse De Broeck or Axel Guérin
Stage direction: Carina Bonan and Christian Gmunder
Dramaturgy: Marie Peters
Music: Youri van Uffelen
Costume: Chris Snik
Set, props: Emma Ribbens, Joris Jansens, Rune Tuerlinckx and Arthur Van de Velde
Production: Gedachtegang vzw and De Studio
Coproduction: Circ’uit, Miramiro, PERPLX and De Spil
With special thanks to: FroeFroe, Theater op de Markt, Blikfabriek, Circolito and the Flemish Government

Accessibility

  • This performance continues in the public space.
  • The performance is wheelchair accessible.
  • This site has a toilet (suitable for wheelchair users).

Wednesday 23 July PLANEET SIERK WIJKT UIT

The performance of Organiek Mechaniek will be held on Wednesday 23 July in Rerum-Novarumplein at 16:00.

For more info: www.circusplaneet.be