18.01.24 27.01.24

Elektra Unbound Luanda Casella / NTGent

TICKETS

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With Elektra Unbound, NTGent house artist Luanda Casella stages yet another Greek tragedy. Or so we are made to believe. Hunting the part of Elektra, three young auditioners copy women from literary classics, pop culture and social media. Only to reveal their own problematic sense of self.
practical

tickets

15-26 euros

general info

✔ ENG spoken
✔ DUTCH surtitled
✔ Thanks to our theatre tablet you can also enjoy following options (available from 26/01/24)


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ICON_tablet_Tekengebied-1-kopie-3_40px-1.jpg#asset:12712127Flemish Sign Language


ICON_tablet_Tekengebied-1-kopie-2_40px-2.jpg#asset:12712124Audio description (Dutch)



Elektra Unbound  is part of the Queer & Now, Young & New  and The Greeks  subscriptions.

Guided by ideas of fame and success, and other full-blown delusions, three auditioners go to a mad extent to get the part of Elektra. In ancient Greek tragedy, Elektra is a girl who wants. She wants to avenge her father’s death and everyone will hear her suffering. Sobbing and cursing, cursing and sobbing: Elektra hardly does anything else. She never leaves the doorway.

Similarly, the three auditioners are trapped in a sensational montage of interviews and improvs. As they interpret iconic scenes from The Oresteia, the full trilogy about Elektra and her dysfunctional family, they start to reveal their disastrous own lives. Late-bloomer director Lua and her fierce assistant Lucius, who have a troublesome relationship, never arrive at the point of actually staging Elektra. Is their inability the result of the complex relation we all have with tragedy, or is there more at play? Why is Lua frantically running away? And why do we get the feeling that these auditioners are all deranged?

Inspired by melodrama and social media, Elektra Unbound switches scenes as if the audience would swipe screens. Anything to keep the discomfort on stage easily digestible.



credits

with

Abigail Gypens, Bavo Buys, Emma Van Ammel, Lua Casella, Lucius Romeo-Fromm

direction

Lua Casella

dramaturgy

Joline Vermeulen

set design

Shizuka Hariu

music composition

Pablo Casella

light design

Dennis Diels

costume design

Jo De Visscher

choreography

Lucius Romeo-Fromm

production

NTGent

coproduction

DE SINGEL, HAU Hebbel am Ufer
TOON MEER
TOON MINDER
credits

with

Abigail Gypens , Bavo Buys , Emma Van Ammel , Lua Casella , Lucius Romeo-Fromm

direction

Lua Casella

dramaturgy

Joline Vermeulen

set design

Shizuka Hariu

music composition

Pablo Casella

light design

Dennis Diels

costume design

Jo De Visscher

choreography

Lucius Romeo-Fromm

production

NTGent

coproduction

DE SINGEL, HAU Hebbel am Ufer
practical

tickets

15-26 euros

general info

✔ ENG spoken
✔ DUTCH surtitled
✔ Thanks to our theatre tablet you can also enjoy following options (available from 26/01/24)


ICON_tablet_Tekengebied-1-kopie_40px-1.jpg#asset:12712125Subtitling NL+


ICON_tablet_Tekengebied-1-kopie-3_40px-1.jpg#asset:12712127Flemish Sign Language


ICON_tablet_Tekengebied-1-kopie-2_40px-2.jpg#asset:12712124Audio description (Dutch)



Elektra Unbound  is part of the Queer & Now, Young & New  and The Greeks  subscriptions.

TICKETS

Thursday 18 January 2024
20u00
NTGent Schouwburg
Saturday 20 January 2024
20u00
NTGent Schouwburg
Sunday 21 January 2024
15u00
NTGent Schouwburg
Thursday 25 January 2024
20u00
NTGent Schouwburg
Friday 26 January 2024
20u00
NTGent Schouwburg
Saturday 27 January 2024
20u00
NTGent Schouwburg

ON TOUR

Wednesday 27 March 2024
20u00
Brussel (KVS Bol)
Thursday 28 March 2024
20u00
Brussel (KVS Bol)

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