Bavo Buys, Planet Winter

master drama
Mentoren / Mentors:
Bosse Provoost
Ezra Veldhuis
Jan Steen
Frederik Le Roy

Links:
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Planet Winter is de afstudeervoorstelling van Bavo Buys & Malique Fye, in samenwerking met Martha Balthazar en Matilde Casier. Vertrekkende van de sciencefictionklassieker The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) van Ursula K. Le Guin, bouwen ze aan een verhaal zo groot als de wereld waarin het zich afspeelt.
Planet Winter is geen profetie, maar een gedachte-experiment. Wat als een gerespecteerde politicus met een buitenaards figuur op de vlucht moet en ze samen 1300 km ijsvlakte moeten oversteken? Wat als een tocht geen avontuur is? Wat als het universum in een draagtas past, en de draagtas in je linkerhand?
Drie spelers begeven zich op het ijs en verbeelden zich een toekomst. Een toekomst die nooit zal plaatsvinden en nooit plaatsgevonden heeft, behalve dan heel even op scène.
“It seems likely that they were an experiment. The thought is unpleasant, but the possibility cannot be ignored. What is very hard for us to understand is that these people are neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle. They are not neuters. They are potentials or integrals.
Therefore on Winter there is no unconsenting sex, nor rape and for seemingly similar reasons these people have never had what one might call a war. In the end, I believe, the dominant factor in their life is not sex or any other human thing: it is cold. Here man has a crueler enemy than even themselves. Someone else will have to think this theory out, though. But, I really don’t see how anyone would be willing to think of victory or defeat after they spent a winter on Winter, and seen the face of the Ice.”
(Day 81 from field notes of Ong T. Oppong, Investigator of the first landing party on Winter)
In het Engels
duur: 90 minuten 

Planet Winter is the graduation performance of Bavo Buys & Malique Fye, in collaboration with Martha Balthazar and Matilde Casier. Starting from the science fiction classic The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, they built a story as big as the world it takes place in.

Planet Winter is not a prophecy, but a thought experiment. What if a once respected politician has to flee with an alien figure and together they must cross 1300km of ice? What if a journey is not an adventure? What if the universe fits in a carrier bag, and the carrier bag in your left hand?

Three players move onto the ice and try to imagine a future. A future that will never take place and never has, except very briefly on stage.

“It seems likely that they were an experiment. The thought is unpleasant, but the possibility cannot be ignored. What is very hard for us to understand is that these people are neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle. They are not neuters. They are potentials or integrals.

Therefore on Winter there is no unconsenting sex, nor rape and for seemingly similar reasons these people have never had what one might call a war. In the end, I believe, the dominant factor in their life is not sex or any other human thing: it is cold. Here man has a crueler enemy than even themselves. Someone else will have to think this theory out, though. But, I really don’t see how anyone would be willing to think of victory or defeat after they spent a winter on Winter, and seen the face of the Ice.”

(Day 81 from field notes of Ong T. Oppong, Investigator of the first landing party on Winter)

In English
duration: 90 minutes

CREDITS
inspiration The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K.Le Guin concept & elaboration Bavo Buys, Malique Fye, Martha Balthazar & Matilde Casier play Bavo Buys, Malique Fye & Matilde Casier dramaturgy Martha Balthazar costumes Lena Mariën music Bully Fae Collins translation Bavo Buys production support Alicia Andries technique Pieter Grypdonck,Lilith Pas & Martha Balthazar surtitles Eliza Stuyck mentors Jan Steen, Bosse Provoost, Ezra Veldhuis, Wannes Gyselinck & Frederik Le Roy with thanks to Gouvernement, CAMPO, KASK drama, Bardia Mohammad, Valerie Desmet & Lander Govaerts poster Malique Fye with the support of deAuteurs & HoGent

 

 

beeld door Malique Fye
beeld door Malique Fye
Foto: Sam De Buysere
foto door Sam De Buysere
foto door Sam De Buysere
foto door Sam De Buysere