Wasteland tells in a sober, visual manner of nine figures that roam a forgotten earth. At a distance of just over fifty metres from the audience, small creatures potter around. They surrender to the laws of living and dying without protecting or shielding themselves. They choose to venture into the open, to be vulnerable. There is no speech. The images are gripping and follow each other at an icy pace. The lines of the countryside are long. The cruelties without cause or consequence.
direction Lotte Van Den Berg / performance Guido Kleene, Ward, Weemhoff, Daphne De Winkel, Monika Haasova, Jaap Ten Holt, Lobke Van Beuzekom, Matthias Maat, Luc Loots (originally cast)/ technician Manuel Boutreur, Paul de Vries / design of the tribune Martin Mulder / production manager Erma van Maris / producer Compagnie Dakar / co-producer OMSK / spreiding Frans brood / with thanks to Theater Stap
LOTTE VAN DEN BERG was born in Groningen in 1975. She studied Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam before being accepted at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, Theatre Direction in 1998. After graduating, Lotte immediately started working freelance as a director for different Flemish and Dutch companies. From 2005 till the beginning of 2009 she was resident director at Toneelhuis in Antwerp. In 2009 Lotte left Toneelhuis to become artistic director of a new structure called OMSK.
direction Lotte Van Den Berg / Compagnie Dakar
performance Guido Kleene, Ward, Weemhoff, Daphne De Winkel, Monika Haasova, Jaap Ten Holt, Lobke Van Beuzekom, Matthias Maat, Luc Loots (originally cast)/
technician Manuel Boutreur, Paul de Vries /
design of the tribune Martin Mulder /
production manager Erma van Maris /
producer Compagnie Dakar /
co-producer OMSK / spreiding Frans brood /
with thanks to Theater Stap