CARMEN

Celebrate with CARMEN, which brings an ode to non-conformism and unbridled passion. Experience how the freedom of a person who takes their own pleasure as a guideline and does not let themselves be put into boxes can inspire us all. And also experience that some have to pay for this freedom with their lives and that, 150 years after the femicide on Carmen, we wake up in a world that has changed less than we would hope. Diversity in the spotlight Theater Stap is a permanent value, but also a true exception within the Flemish theater landscape. For forty years, they have put people with a mental disability in the spotlight and created professional performances that celebrate the power of diversity and authenticity, a milestone to reflect on! Theater colleagues from Compagnie Lodewijk/Louis also have more than a reason to celebrate thanks to their twenty years of idiosyncratic, absurd-comic theater. Now it happens that the piece they are sinking their teeth into together, CARMEN, Bizet’s hit opera, is itself ready for the bubbles with its 150th anniversary. To complete the party, Aline Goffin, Jason Dousselaere and Dijf Sanders put the original music through their own, typical musical mangle and live brew a soundtrack that rocks and soothes and moves and amazes.