LOD muziektheater / Gorges Ocloo
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Tue 17.0320:00 - 22:00LOD Studio
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Wed 18.0320:00 - 22:00LOD Studio
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Thu 19.0320:00 - 22:00LOD Studio
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Fri 20.0320:00 - 22:00LOD Studio
Director Gorges Ocloo (Ghana) has long held a fascination for ‘Moby Dick’. When he saw the picture of an eleven-year-old girl drifting lifeless in the Mediterranean Sea, the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. Did this little girl know about the danger of her journey before boarding the boat that was supposed to guide her to safety? Ocloo similarly wondered whether Queequeg, the young sailor from ‘Moby Dick’, knew the peril captain Ahab would put his crew through.
Ocloo called on Nigerian writer Ben Okri to pen this adaptation of the literary classic. He reworked Melville’s text into a magical-realistic story about the gap between the rich and the poor, between power and impotence. The story is set after the ship has sunk. Ahab and Queequeg exchange their thoughts for the first time. This version of ‘Moby Dick’ is a jazzy opera, swinging and energetic, about the need for better communication in our polarising society.
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Practical
tue 17.03 - fri 20.03 - 20:00 LOD Studio
€10 / 10 / 10 / 8
in Dutch with Dutch surtitles
The cast
Credits
concept & direction Gorges Ocloo - composition Dominique Pauwels - adaptation libretto Ben Okri - based on the novel by Herman Melville - with Josse De Pauw - mezzo soprano Raehann Bryce Davis - music Toon Callier - production LOD muziektheater - in coproduction with C-TAK, deSingel (Antwerp), d e t h e a t e r m a k e r (Antwerpen), CC De Grote Post (Ostend) - with the support of the Tax Shelter policy of the Belgian federal government
in collaboration with LOD muziekheater & Africalia
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