Avant-Première: Summit Gent

“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.” — E. H. Gombrich 

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You are invited to a summit.

You are invited to a performance entitled SUMMIT.

You know, of course, that those are not the same thing.

After all, you know very well where the line lies between reality and fiction.

You like to see reality in a way you’ve never seen it before.

That’s why you choose theatre. But whether what you’ll see is always fiction - that, we cannot promise.

SUMMIT explores the boundaries between fact and fiction, belief and doubt, beauty and horror. What happens when words seem to be true, but aren’t quite? When we want to believe something, even though we know better?

With SUMMIT, Ontroerend Goed examines the power of language and our eternal longing for meaning.

A performance that doesn’t ask you to decide what’s real, but invites you to believe in what we can imagine.

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Direction

Alexander Devriendt

By & with

Mourad Baaiz, Karolien De Bleser, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aaron J. Gordon, Aurélie Lannoy, Leonore Spee, Samir Veen, a.o.

Director's assistant

Remi Cosijn

Dramaturgy

Britt Bakker, Miguel Angel Melgares 

Scenography

Onbetaalbaar & Nick Mattan 

Technical

Nick De Keyser, e.a.

Production

NTGent, Ontroerend Goed 

Coproduction

Stadttheater Schaffhausen (CH)

With the support of

Flemish Governement, City of Ghent