BOWLING BUFFALO - Compagnie Cecilia Wildcard

Acting: Lien Thys, Hanne Timmermans, Annelore Crollet & Kiana Porte • text and direction: Daan Borloo • assistant direction and dramaturgy: Noor Gielen • scenography: Eva Demulder • scenography & lighting design: Gilles Pollak • Decor: Anton Leysen • lighting and sound design: Lasse Geudens & Jannes Dierynck • costume: Louis Verlinde • production: “Compagnie Cecilia Wildcard” • co-production: Perpodium • with support from: Theater Malpertuis, De Grote Post, c o r s o, De Klap, CC Sint-Niklaas, CC De Steiger, CC Hasselt, De Warande, Ter Vesten, CC De Werft, CC De Brouckere, Liers Cultuurcentrum, the Vlaamse Overheid & the Tax Shelter-measure of the Belgische Federale Overheid via Cronos Invest • with thanks to: Productiehuis Ouroboros, Thys Voegwerken & Timmermans BVBA, Woosh, Jezet, Bowling Vlaanderen & Euro Bowling Deurne"Split happens" Somewhere along a highway stands Bowling Buffalo, a place that still looks exactly as it did in 1994 and that has been operated for years by four young women – the buffalas. They once started there as student workers, but in the meantime, they are part of the permanent furniture. In their seemingly eternal cocoon, they wait for customers, while they bicker about their loose love lives, drink milkshakes, and smoke cigarettes. Until one of them announces her departure. She wants to take a new direction in her life and leave the bowling alley behind. All these years, the buffalas have lived in a wonderful feeling of timelessness, under the fluorescent light of the retro bowling decor and their own unbridled imagination. But now that someone has dragged the concept of ‘finiteness’ into it, all the pins fall in record time. Bowling Buffalo is a Wildcard performance by Compagnie Cecilia about nostalgia, thirty-somethings, and dreams that may or may not be dusty. Played by Hanne Timmermans, Lien Thys, Kiana Porte & Annelore Crollet, directed by Daan Borloo. ‘Bowling Buffalo’ by Compagnie Cecilia and Daan Borloo is a hit, for more than one reason - ★★★★ in De Standaard Kiana Porte about Bowling Buffalo: "On stage, I am happiest" - Knack Focus Spel: Lien Thys, Hanne Timmermans, Annelore Crollet & Kiana Porte • text and direction: Daan Borloo • assistant direction and dramaturgy: Noor Gielen • scenography: Eva Demulder • scenography & lighting design: Gilles Pollak • Decor: Anton Leysen • lighting and sound design: Lasse Geudens & Jannes Dierynck • costume: Louis Verlinde • production: “Compagnie Cecilia Wildcard” • co-production: Perpodium • with support from: Theater Malpertuis, De Grote Post, c o r s o, De Klap, CC Sint-Niklaas, CC De Steiger, CC Hasselt, De Warande, Ter Vesten, CC De Werft, CC De Brouckere, Liers Cultuurcentrum, the Vlaamse Overheid & the Tax Shelter-measure of the Belgische Federale Overheid via Cronos Invest • with thanks to: Productiehuis Ouroboros, Thys Voegwerken & Timmermans BVBA, Woosh, Jezet, Bowling Vlaanderen & Euro Bowling Deurne