ACT TO FORGET and ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR FISHING
TOM STRUYF (BE)
These are some of the reviews on Act to Forget: “An iconic, uplifting and sometimes even funny story”. Els Van Steenberghe, Knack “The images are of a compelling beauty”. “An intelligent editing that feels really contemporary in the use of media”. Liv Laveyne, cobra.be.
When actor Tom Struyf finds an old photograph of himself which he can not comprehend, an intense battle with his failing memory follows. Through conversations with a neurosurgeon, a psychologist, a psychic and his own grandmother, he tries to discover what is going on in his head. When his research has led him high into the Swiss mountains, Tom finally realizes what he has forgotten all this time. Act to forget transforms from a naive attempt to understand how our doings are determined by our thinking into a passionate plea for love, over time and generations.
How do you live in the now? In a world with never-ending click-options trying to continually distract you?
How do you stay true to yourself when everything around you is screaming it can be better, faster, nicer?
Actor Tom Struyf and dancer Nelle Hens are looking for the emergency exit. With the help of a wide range of spin-doctors, psychiatrists, journalists and philosophers they try to unravel what happens in the backrooms of the rat race. Who’s running the show?
Another great year for fishing is the adorned story of a life where fiction and reality become more and more intertwined. A play about the question how to lead a normal life in an ever-changing society that constantly requires a great deal of adaptability.
ACT TO FORGET concept, text and performance Tom Struyf
co-creation Willem De Maeseneer
camera and editing Geert De Vleesschauwer
technique Klaartje Vermeulen, Geert De Vleesschauwer
production WATMARSWAS
coproduction kultuurfaktorij Monty & detheatermaker
support kc STUK, wp Zimmer, HETPALEIS, SACD e Government of Flanders
ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR FISHING from and with
Tom Struyf (concept, text and performance) & Nelle Hens (dance and choreography)
co-creation Willem De Maeseneer
camera, editing and technique Geert De Vleesschauwer
production WATMARSWAS
coproduction detheatermaker, Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond & deBuren, TAKT Dommelhof and Cultural Centre C-Mine Genk
in collaboration with kultuurfaktorij Monty
with the support of the Flemish Literature Fund, the City of Antwerp and the Government of Flanders
ACT TO FORGET SUN 02.10.2016 | 20.30
ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR FISHING MON 03.10.2016 | 20.30
TEATRO FOCE – LUGANO
talk, after-show meeting with the audience
moderator Paola Tripoli
translation Carina Kaiser
