Kurt Defranq and Innerwoud "Life and death in the Ast"

Stijn Streuvels’s masterpiece ‘Life and Death in the Ast’ gets a new life on stage 100 years after its first publication. Auteur Kurt Defrancq brings the novella in a gripping adaptation, placed ‘in the ast’ by director Yoeri Lewijze by means of a ‘black box’ set up, in which 170 spectators can take a seat. They experience the story, are immersed in it, rather than looking at a scene from a chair. Kurt Defrancq tells and plays, supported by live music by Innerwoud. Narrator, musician, and audience are surrounded by animated images, based on the brand-new Graphic Novel van Ivan Petrus Adriaenssens. Close together and close to the actor and musician, in an intimate ‘black box’, audience and players experience the heat and the oppression of the chicory drying plant as it were together. At the performance, the graphic novel by Ivan Petrus Adriaenssens is available. In this impressive work, Adriaenssens depicts the classic by Stijn Streuvels almost without words, but with overwhelming visual power. Ivan is also present each time to sign copies and provide them with a beautiful, personal drawing. This makes this beautiful book an exclusive collector's item for every theater visitor who takes a copy home.