nesten | 4+
fABULEUS | BE
Three bodies and some cardboard and paper. These are the plain elements with which the family show nesten renders the world. Its three characters seem to be looking for something. A friend? A roof? A home? Cardboard boxes offer a solution: the three find each other in constructing a startling universe. The poignant nesten is ‘Fragile’ but not ‘This side up’: its creators keep shifting their perspective and that of their audience. Moreover, nesten is testimony to the timelessness of the oldest line of Dutch love poetry, which translates as: ‘All the birds have built their nests, except for you and me. What are we waiting for?’ The slightly surrealist, richly imagined nesten was made under the colours of fABULEUS from Leuven.
Credits
Concept and perfromance: Anna Bentivegna, Zoë Demoustier, Ayrton Fraenk
Final direction: Jef Van gestel
Theaterkrant: “Nesten is geen glimmend spektakel, maar een ingetogen zoektocht naar beschutting. Zo lief, en ook zo leuk en grappig. Ook voor oudere kinderen en grote mensen.”
