In Œdipus/bêt noir, Vandekeybus goes to work on the unconventional text by Jan Decorte. In 1999, Decorte reworked the Greek tragedy Œdipus Rex, the drama about the tragic antihero who kills his father and marries his mother. Decorte wrapped the essence of Sophocles' story in a beautiful, poetic and "childlike" language. In parallel to the immediacy of Decorte’s language, Vandekeybus opts for a straightforward staging: pure, earthy and without embellishments.
direction Wim Vandekeybus / created by and with Wim Vandekeybus, Ricardo Ambrozio, Elko Blijweert, Guy Dermul, Elena Fokina, Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir, Dawid Lorenc, Máté Mészáros, Bénédicte Mottart, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Jeroen Stevens, Dymitry Szypura, Willy Thomas, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, Roland Van Campenhout, Carly Wijs / text Jan Decorte / collaboration Greet Van Poeck (dramaturge), Iñaki Azpillaga (assistante à la chorégraphie), Isabelle Lhoas, Frédérick Denis (stylisme), Francis Gahide, Wim Vandekeybus (création lumière), Benjamin Dandoy, Antoine Delagoutte (création son), Davy Deschepper (régisseur) / music Elko Blijweert, Jeroen Stevens, Roland Van Campenhout / production KVS/Ultima Vez (Brussels, BE) / coproduction Schauspiel Köln (Cologne, DE), Les Théâtres de la Ville (Luxembourg, LU) / with the support of Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg-Scène européenne (Strasbourg, FR) / ULTIMA VEZ reçoit l'appui des Autorités flamandes et de la Commission Communautaire flamande de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
