Pelleas&Melisande&Pelleas

The courtiers, Pelléas and Golaud, search in a forest fruitlessly for the beautiful Melisande and find only each other in a superlative degree of love. They circle each other like rutting deer and treat the audience to a range of feelings. Is there a greater fool than one in love? Dimitri Leue ventures with great pleasure into the courtly art of seduction of Maurice Maeterlinck and pushes Frank Focketyn and Rashif El Kaoui into the harness of love. Two top actors tumble lightly through this courtly love story, where threat is also never far away. 'Pelleas & Melisande' is such a wonderful fairy tale for adults about a forbidden love affair, jealousy, and melancholy. Dimitri Leue retranslated the text of Ghent native and Nobelprijswinnaar Maurice Maeterlinck from French. The romantic sighing and the repetitive flirting with danger sound even sharper in Dutch. The text also inspired quite a few composers: Debussy, Schönberg, Sibelius, and Fauré set this symbolist play to music. Antoon Offeciers adapts the music of Debussy and gives it a jazzy sound and feel. The music is brought live by Antoon, Tim Vandenbergh, and Karel De Backer. Costumes are stitched together with silk thread by Lynn Wauters.