Elegast - Wannes Cappelle, Inge Paulussen, Jonas Leemans & Dimitri Leue

“True history and all true May I tell you, listen now” Putting a Een Vlaamse classic in a new jacket? Dimitri Leue is of course the perfect man for that! This time he sets his sights on the pre-courtly knightly tale Karel ende Elegast. We are already fantasizing about a staging with lute music, chain mail, and battlements on stage. Although that might be a bit predictable? What we can certainly expect is a strong text delivered by equally strong actors. “I want to know who you are, and where you are riding to at this hour, and what your father's name is. And whether you ever had a bunny as a child that pooped square droppings?” An angel gives Keizer Karel the task at night to go stealing. And it can be that simple: the adventure of the king with the beautiful beard begins! It promises to be an edifying story about loyalty, trust, and honorable behavior. Wannes Cappelle, Jonas Leemans, Dimitri Leue, and Inge Paulussen pump new blood into the medieval version of Karel ende Elegast. Na Van den vos die amoc maecte (CCHA, 2025) Leue tackles a second text from the canon to feel how words can connect you with people from eight hundred years ago and at the same time with people from Ypres to Hasselt. text & direction Dimitri Leue / acting Wannes Cappelle, Jonas Leemans, Dimitri Leue & Inge Paulussen / music Antoon Offeciers / costumes Atelier Utilisé – Lynn Wauters / set design Antoine Waterkeyn / © Peter Claeys leue.be