Indie
Indie by Abattoir Fermé (Belgium). Indie was a theatre project contemplating the future. The production was built on the ideas of the American science fiction writer J. G. Ballard who found that technologic progress creates primitive people.
Abattoir Fermé is a theatre collective based in Mechelen in Belgium, founded in 1999. Their influences range from Dadaism to horror movies leading to a personal and humorous, yet disturbing style of their own.
BIT Teatergarasjen, Spring programme 2006. 13.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/64
Information
(Objekt ID 4746)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | January 24, 2006 |
| Produced by | Abattoir Fermé |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Post-dramatic theatre, Theatre, Music, Science fiction |
The action in Indie by Abattoir Fermé takes place in a skyscraper in a metropolis filled with eccentric characters, horror images, confrontational humour and intriguing stories. Lala-land is a city where dogs are set loose in the corridors of skyscrapers, where companies control the content of your dreams, where superheroes commit suicide and where people spit on each other to cool off. While some experience the present global malaise as apocalyptic, the characters portrayed in Indie see this so-called chaos as a potential step forward, a next evolutionary phase: the digital world as a new society model.
The program of Black Box Teater concluded in the following manner: "Abattoir Fermé takes use of extreme measures, and it ends, literally, in a scenic apocalypse."
Indie was part of the so-called The Chaos Trilogy, which also included the productions Tinseltown and Lala-land.
In the program of BIT Teatergarasjen Indie is described like this:
"This is the story of an entire generation. Not this generation, but the next one. Not now, but a bit later in the new millennium. Not here, but in one of the seven growing city states. Some say that one day the seven cities will touch each other and cover the world with asphalt skin. That day is End Day. This is Lala-land, the biggest of the seven, and there is not enough room, not enough jobs and not enough oxygen here."
The production Indie was the first performance by Abattoir Fermé to be performed in Norway, and it had its Norwegian premiere at BIT Teatergarasjen.
Indie was presented with support from Arts Council Norway and The Flemish Ministry for Culture.
Sources: BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2006. 13.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/64
Vallat, Marianne Dyrnes, Tom Klev og Kristian Selthun (2006). Black Box Teater Oslo. Høsten 2006. Black Box Teater Oslo [Oslo], s 27.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Stef Lernous | – Text |
| Joost Vandecasteele | – Text |
| Stef Lernous | – Direction |
| Joost Vandecasteele | – Direction |
| KRENG | – Music |
| Pepijn Caudron | – Actor |
| Bert Haelvoet | – Actor |
| Stef Lernous | – Actor |
| Lotte Troch | – Actor |
| Joost Vandecasteele | – Actor |
| Tine Van den Wyngaert | – Actor |
| Chiel van Berkel | – Actor |
| Navember 17, 2006 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| Navember 16, 2006 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| January 25, 2006 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | Show |
| January 24, 2006 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | National premiere, Norway |