FABLES

The cricket who prefers to call himself Flierefluiter. De Verlangslang who, while longing and dreaming, never starts her journey. De Meningsverschildpad who falls in love with a Bird who contradicts him with love. And of course the Wise Bear, who, while philosophizing, strands on the much too hot beach. According to the dictionary, a fable is a short story that proclaims a generally known truth using a striking example. But do those truths still exist in a world where we disagree with each other more and more often? In the swirling musical performance Fabels, the test is put to the test. Players, musicians, and the audience make an exciting journey together: jumping through the forest, wallowing in the desert, drifting along with the river, landing on the volcano, flying over an ice floe, and stranding on the coast. Centuries-old stories are shuffled, pruned, and glued back together, resulting in a procession of wonderful encounters between equally wonderful creatures. Does the truth hide there? Componisten Osama Abdulrasol and Erik Desimpelaere, together with Naomi van der Horst, Sophia Bauer, Ibe Rossel, and Sarah Yu Zeebroek, create wonder about the power and importance of grand stories. Within this ode to the classic animal fable, the past, present, and future merge. An often humorous journey in time and space where every story deserves its melancholic musicality or theatrical ferocity.