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Hotel Modern and director Guy Cassiers, together with and 11 actors from the ITA ensemble, create the world of Primeval and Other Times: in models and live on several video screens, life in the village and the surrounding nature is created. The whole is a tableau vivant of epic proportions that does justice to the layered world of the novel
Primeval and Other Times
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk ingeniously brings to life a Polish village where residents try to survive the effects of two world wars, communism, and the advent of modernity. Several generations of villagers start families, build houses, and try to resist the violence of history and nature as best they can. Birth, growth, decay, and death affect all creatures - trees, spirits, and animals in addition to humans - and are described with compassion and gentleness. Tokarczuk shows that every human being is completely unique, searching for meaning and purpose.
Director Guy Cassiers gained fame with performances in which video plays a central role and in which the actors constantly switch between acting and storytelling. At ITA, he previously made Hamlet versus Hamlet (by Tom Lanoye), The Kindly Ones (after Jonathan Littell), May we be forgiven (after A.M. Homes) and Lehman Trilogy (by Stefano Cassini).
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Based on the novel Primeval & Other Times from Olga Tokarczuk
director Guy Cassiers live animation Hotel Modern adaptation and dramaturgy Peter Van Kraaij cast Pauline Kalker, Arlène Hoornweg, Chris Nietvelt, Maarten Heijmans, Janni Goslinga, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Laura De Geest, Eelco Smits, Ilke Paddenburg, Minne Koole, Frieda Pittoors, Daniel Kolf, ‘Ntianu Stuger maquettes Herman Helle, Arlène Hoornweg, Marsha Agerbeek, Juliet Campfens, Dick Vroemen mask Kirsten Hutschemakers video Pablo Strörmann camera Robbert So
Primeval & Other Times is a coproduction of ITA and Hotel Modern