written by Nino Haratischwili
edited by Verlag der Autoren (Francoforte s.M.)
unpublished traduction by Anna Benussi e Angelo Callipo
satge reading by Matilde Vigna
OE Production - National Premiere

A brilliant monologue, written by the Georgian author Nino Haratischwili based in Amburgo, winner of several German literature awards and published in Italy by Mondadori and Marsilio. The Italian actress Matilde Vigna gives voice to the protagonist of the monologue, Marusja, a migrant woman who had to work hard to get what she now has, unlike, according to her point of view, the new refugees to whom the West now gives everything. Through her thoughts, when she cleans the reception center where the new refugees are based, her sinister plans arise. The play resumes Nino's work, written for the "A European Dinner" project at the Burgtheater in Vienna, and translated by Anna Bremussa, in which the writer talk about today's situation in Europe from a female point of view.

By and with: Jovial Mbenga & Benno Steinegger
Co-director: Gaia Saitta
Dramaturge: Lara Staal
Outside eye: Joëlle Sambi Nzeba
Technical Direction&Lights: Valeria Foti
Collaboration for research: Costanza Lanzara (University of Florence-cultural anthropology)
Other outside eyes: Pol Heyvaert (artistic collaborator at CAMPO), Simon Baetens (dramaturge at workspacebrussels) and Van Herreweghe (dramaturge, theatre maker and former curator of Theater Aan Zee)
Artistic Coordinator: Elke De Coker (Workspacebrussels)
Financial coordination: Valérie Wolters (Workspacebrussels)
Co-produced by: workspacebrussels, KAAP, Garage 29
With the support of: Campo, wpZimmer, Codice Ivan, KLm / Kinkaleri and De Vlaamse Overheid & De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Sustained by WIPCOOP / Mestizo Arts Platform

National Premiere

The Chance to Find Yourself arose from the genuine curiosity of two theatre-makers to understand each other more clearly. Benno Steinegger and Jovial Mbenga come from different cultural and economic backgrounds: one is from Italy, the other from Congo. Today, they both live and work in Brussels.
What started out as a theatrical adaptation of the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, soon became a performance about the encounter between two people, their differences and commonalities. The theatre makers were confronted with each other's ignorance, latent discriminatory behaviour and numerous (un)conscious thoughts that influence their daily lives. Eventually, the process itself became the result: a playful theatrical peek behind the curtain of a friendship and collaboration with many ups and downs. How close can we really get to the other? What role does our perception play in all this? Steinegger and Mbenga approach these questions with bold humor and abstract imagination.

National Premiere
A project by Ayelen Parolin
Created end performed by Baptiste Cazaux, Piet Defrancq & Daan Jaartsveld
Assistant choregrapher Julie Bougard
Lighting creation Laurence Halloy
Staging & costumes Marie Szersnovicz
Dramaturgy Olivier Hespel
External consultant Alessandro Bernardeschi
Visuals Cécile Barraud de Lagerie
Costumes Atelier du Théâtre de Liège Production RUDA asbl
Coproductions Charleroi danse, Le Centquatre-Paris, Théâtre de Liège, CCN de Tours, MA
Scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard, Les Brigittines, DC&J Création
Support & Studio Hosting CCN de Tours
Residency Charleroi danse, Les Brigittines, Le Gymnase - CDCN Roubaix/Hauts-de- France, Le Centquatre-Paris, MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard with the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Tax Shelter of the Federal Government of Belgium and the Inver Tax Shelter

Using a deliberately limited, sparing choreographic vocabulary, Ayelen Parolin launchesthree performers into an astonishing game of rhythm and construction, at once repetitiveand constantly on the move, forever redistributed, restructured, re-envisioned.A game in which the unfinished and a return to the beginning would comprise the groundrules. An amazing maze. A game of music... with no music.

loosely based on A woman under the influence by John Cassavetes
director and dramaturgy Gianmaria Borzillo
with Elena Giannotti, Matteo Ramponi
light Valeria Foti
costumesEttore Lombardi 
sound design by Raffaele Lombardo
assistance Francesco Cocco
care and promotion of Giulia Traversi
Special mention of the Biennale College Theater - Directors Under 30

Under the influence is the attempt to rebuild after a collapse. To rebuild a moment of splendor, the distant acme that represents an awakening for these sleeping characters and in conflict with the emptiness inside them. The surrounding space is the projection of an inner landscape, and the ordinary rhythm of the action is the expression of  something invisible, of an unknown state. The subjects on stage are not free, they have not chosen the place where born or the name and their existence already  from the beginning has a sign. What is missing? How to find a space of freedom? Questions born from the hunger to express an interiority that wasn't able to find an access channel, destroying everything.