The Oresteia is not only the only trilogy that has come down to us from the classical antiquity and one of the greatest tragedies of humanity, it is also considered as the myth of creation of our civilization by which the everlasting cycle of revenge was replaced by the principles of justice, integration and reconciliation.
The high-profile director Milo Rau travelled to Mosul, where ISIS proclaimed the caliphate, to perform a contemporary version of it with Belgian and Iraqi actors. Do ISIS warriors deserve the death penalty or can we forgive them ? What can the Oresteia, rehearsed and put on stage in Western Europe and Mosul mean today ? By means of an old tragedy Orestes in Mosul reveals a current dilemma in an astonishing way.
For the last few years the Swiss director and author Milo Rau has conquered the big international stages with unparalleled political plays always based on testimonies and reconstructions of true facts. Reviewers have called him 'the most influential' (Die Zeit), 'the most prize-winning' (Le Soir), 'the most interesting' (De Standaard) and 'the most ambitious' (The Guardian) artist of our time. Rau's productions were to be seen at all big international festivals, toured more than 30 countries world-wide and were awarded lots of great prizes. Previous NEXT editions presented Hate Radio (2012), The Civil Wars (2014) and Five Easy Pieces. From the 2018-2019 season Rau has been artistic director of NTGent.
Free buss:
* 16/11: Departure at 18h from Doornik
* 17/11: Departure at 17h from Kortrijk
TEXT Milo Rau & ensemble / BASED ON the Oresteia by Aeschylus / DIRECTION Milo Rau / WITH Duraid Abbas Ghaieb, Susana AbdulMajid, Elsie de Brauw, Risto Kübar, Johan Leysen, Bert Luppes, Marijke Pinoy / ON VIDEO : ACTORS Baraa Ali, Khitam Idress, Khalid Rawi / MUSICIANS Suleik Salim Al-Khabbaz, Saif Al-Taee, Firas Atraqchi, Nabeel Atraqchi, Zaidun Haitham, Rabee Nameer CHORUS Ahmed Abdul Razzaq Hussein, Hatal Al-Hianey, Younis Anad Gabori, Mustafa Dargham, Abdallah Nawfal, Mohamed Saalim, Rayan Shihab Ahmed, Hassan Taha / DRAMATURGY Stefan Bläske / SET ruimtevaarders / COSTUME DESIGN An De Mol / LIGHT DESIGN Dennis Diels / FILM Moritz von Dungern, Daniel Demoustier / FILM EDITING Joris Vertenten / MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT & COMPOSITION Saskia Venegas Aernouts / DIRECTING ASSISTANT Katelijne Laevens / PRODUCTION MANAGER Noemi Suarez Sanchez / STAGE MANAGER Marijn Vlaeminck / TECHNICAL PRODUCTION Oliver Houttekiet / SOUND Dimitri Devos / VIDEO TECHNICIAN Stijn Pauwels / LIGHT TECHNICIAN Dennis Diels, Geert de Rodder / STAGE TECHNICIAN Jeroen Vanhoutte / DRESSER Nancy Colman, Micheline D’hertoge / DRAMATURGY ASSISTANT Eline Banken / SECOND DIRECTING ASSISTANT Bo Alfaro Decreton / INTERN DRAMATURGY Liam Rees / CREATION SUBTITLES Eline Banken / RUNNING SUBTITLES Katelijne Laevens, Noemi Suarez Sanchez / MUSIC Roland Orzabal: Mad World, Suleik Salim Al-Khabbaz & Harif Ma’ad: Ala Adhafi / THANKS TO Ali Yousif Al-Baroodi, Karwan Bazeen, Freddy Decreus, Anne-Christine Duhn, Salih Elias, Joke Emmers, Diana Faisal , Major general Najim Al-Jabouri, Yasameen Al-Jafari, Quassim Khidir, Thomas Kössler, Tom Lanoye, Stella Martany , Rabee Nameer, Zeinab Al-Naser, Anneleen Ophoff, Sardar M.A. Saeed , Mohamad Al-Saffar, Rebaa Sahadi, Armin Smailovic , Mays Tark Algayyar, Rudi Vranckx, Karim Wasfi, General Muqdad Zanel and the whole team of NTGent, Goethe Institute Erbil, Al Hadbaa Hotel Mosul, Nineveh Operations Command, Management of the Fine Arts Institute for Boys in Mosul, General directorate of the Ministry of Education of Nineveh, The Soprano Centre for Arts in Mosul, Qantara Cultural Café Mosul / PRODUCTION NTGent / COPRODUCTION Schauspiel Bochum, TANDEM Scène nationale / WITH THE SUPPORT OF Belgian Tax Shelter & Romaeuropa Festival
