BURN GLASS GATE
90 min.
Creation, text & direction: Carly Rae Heathcote
Creation, scenography & costume design: Manuela Vilanova
Moving through a field, wading up a river, standing in a parking lot and lounging in a graveyard, we see three characters cross one another over and over again. Set in the now, their lives appear stagnant until the disappearance of one of the characters exposes the fragile grip they have on what they consider to be true. Focused on a thin line between truth and madness, a fictional world arises that both seduces and deceives the spectator.
Burn Glass Gate showcases large-scale theatrical images and narratives, where characters navigate the tensions between doubt and belief, fascination and horror. As a spectator, you embark on a humorous journey that repeatedly leads you astray.
︎ e-tcetera.be
“What strikes one immediately in the performance is in fact the visual element which mirrors the barren jumble referred to throughout the text. Manuela Vilanova creates an almost palpable scenography out of beige whose diversity of texture seems to come alive with the performers’ interaction. After the fog from the fire clears, the two main platforms are transformed into large upright mirrors, reflecting the gaze of the audience back at them; the enclosure of the audience, in turn, foreshadows the closed circuit of the eventual play-within-a-play. The costumes are no less multilayered, fabric upon fabric wrapped and crunched and folded on the performers’ bodies like a second sculptural element. At times the visuals feel like an installation, but that is not a bad thing: it grounds the performance against the destructive bewilderment of the characters.” Caroline Lee-Jeong
Performance: Anna Franziska Jäger, Jana De Kockere & Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez
Sound design & composition: Helen Olhausen
Dramaturgical advice: Jana De Kockere
Text coaching: Lara Ferrari tummma
Technical production: Wim Bernaers
Platform technical design & construction: Roeland Dubbel & Vincent Vergote
Production manager: Zita de Vos
Production: Carly Rae Heathcote & workspacebrussels (Brussels)
Coproduction: C-Takt (Pelt), DE SINGEL (Antwerp), workspacebrussels (Brussels)
Residencies: CAMPO (Ghent), workspacebrussels (Brussels)
With support from: the Flemish Community
Thanks to: Cathrin Jarema, Nathan Ooms, Ferre Vuye, Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda, Stef Assandri, Jackie Shallcross-platt, KAAP, Theater aan Zee
Images by Studio Pramudiya
90 min.
Creation, text & direction: Carly Rae Heathcote
Creation, scenography & costume design: Manuela Vilanova
Moving through a field, wading up a river, standing in a parking lot and lounging in a graveyard, we see three characters cross one another over and over again. Set in the now, their lives appear stagnant until the disappearance of one of the characters exposes the fragile grip they have on what they consider to be true. Focused on a thin line between truth and madness, a fictional world arises that both seduces and deceives the spectator.
Burn Glass Gate showcases large-scale theatrical images and narratives, where characters navigate the tensions between doubt and belief, fascination and horror. As a spectator, you embark on a humorous journey that repeatedly leads you astray.
︎ e-tcetera.be
“What strikes one immediately in the performance is in fact the visual element which mirrors the barren jumble referred to throughout the text. Manuela Vilanova creates an almost palpable scenography out of beige whose diversity of texture seems to come alive with the performers’ interaction. After the fog from the fire clears, the two main platforms are transformed into large upright mirrors, reflecting the gaze of the audience back at them; the enclosure of the audience, in turn, foreshadows the closed circuit of the eventual play-within-a-play. The costumes are no less multilayered, fabric upon fabric wrapped and crunched and folded on the performers’ bodies like a second sculptural element. At times the visuals feel like an installation, but that is not a bad thing: it grounds the performance against the destructive bewilderment of the characters.” Caroline Lee-Jeong
Performance: Anna Franziska Jäger, Jana De Kockere & Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez
Sound design & composition: Helen Olhausen
Dramaturgical advice: Jana De Kockere
Text coaching: Lara Ferrari tummma
Technical production: Wim Bernaers
Platform technical design & construction: Roeland Dubbel & Vincent Vergote
Production manager: Zita de Vos
Production: Carly Rae Heathcote & workspacebrussels (Brussels)
Coproduction: C-Takt (Pelt), DE SINGEL (Antwerp), workspacebrussels (Brussels)
Residencies: CAMPO (Ghent), workspacebrussels (Brussels)
With support from: the Flemish Community
Thanks to: Cathrin Jarema, Nathan Ooms, Ferre Vuye, Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda, Stef Assandri, Jackie Shallcross-platt, KAAP, Theater aan Zee
Images by Studio Pramudiya
2024
