In its first musical, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma from New York deals with the life story of one of its company members: Kristin Worrall told her life story over the telephone and thereby provided – literally – the libretto for the piece. Moving and hilarious!

The Antwerp theatre collective STAN and five guest actors will present a famous play from the Russian theatre repertoire: Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk (1905) dramatises the life of the Russian aristocracy and artists and their experience of the social changes taking place at the start of the twentieth century.

Jan Decorte has been using dance and dancers in his theatre productions for many years (a.o. Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker). But the written word was always the chief source for every project. In Tanzung, however, he is for the first time starting out resolutely from movement.

Ricky Seabra is staging the film Koyaanisqatsi, an eco-classic work from 1982. Will it be a re-enactment or a reinterpretation of the film’s message that we are living too fast and are ‘out of balance’?

Following his four-part stage adaptation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, the director Guy Cassiers has started on another magnum opus of European literature, an adaptation in three performances of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.