Love

Amour is a performance about how love gives direction and determines our lives. How do we try to love the other and ourselves? Seven queer actors throw their voices and their bodies into the battle to tell a universal and loving story. A performance like a heartbeat, a breath, a churning sea. Inspiration comes from the life and work of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His dark, lonely, and often theatrical visual language creates a world of imagination in which Amour also finds itself. Louis Janssens writes a new text in which confessions, declarations of love, thoughts, rejections, and desires alternate. Short fragments follow each other rhythmically and complement each other. In this way, a score is created in which love presents itself in all its facets: a cinematic mosaic that takes you along various conversations, encounters, look-backs, and confrontations. One whole The players seem to become one body together, speak as one voice, in one breath, in one movement. Personal experiences are combined with fictional stories. The masculine, the feminine, and everything in between alternate constantly. The players become everyone's man and everyone's woman. They play the life and the suffering of us all.