Het nieuwstedelijk

Early bird price 19 euros A young investigative journalist stumbles upon large-scale fraud, in which politics and the business world are entangled. The deeper he digs, the more he himself becomes entangled in a web of lies, truth, and doubt. When his own editor-in-chief recoils from publication, he decides to go solo and blog anonymously. Until a death threat arrives in the mail. In the era of post-truth and alternative facts, doubt is a perverse system that continuously questions the truth. Lobby groups deliberately sow doubt to call the scientific consensus into question. With Voordeel van de Twijfel (Benefit of the Doubt), Stijn Devillé is setting up a new performance cycle where each episode is a standalone theatrical thriller. "The theater of Het nieuwstedelijk has something of thrillers. (...) The naturalness of Danish crime series, of American political films. The naturalness of an ever-increasing tension between private and public personas." (Wouter Hillaert) Cast: Pieter-Jan De Wyngaert, Sara Vertongen, Tom Van Bauwel, Matthias Van de brul and Alejandra Theus Muziek: Geert Waegeman, Mai Ogawa Tekst: Stijn Devillé Regie: Stijn Devillé & Christophe Aussems Dramaturgie: Els Theunis In in collaboration with Het Nationale Theater Den Haag and the international research agency Bellingcat Deze production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian federal government and Gallop Tax shelter