La Monnaie / De Munt LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
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Partner project

Menuet
Daan Janssens, Fabrice Murgia

Presentation

Why is it that the most avidly read parts of a newspaper are the horrific human- interest stories, which we read with furtive pleasure and with a morbid obsession, as voyeurs of other people’s suffering? This is one of the questions that occurred to the LOD composer Daan Janssens when he read Menuet, a short novel by Louis Paul Boon. In this classic work, a workman, his wife, and their maid become entangled in a love triangle. Together with the actor and director Fabrice Murgia, who is artistic director of the Théâtre National, Janssens creates a disturbing ‘domestic tragedy’ told from the point of view of the three characters. Three portraits of lonely people, ‘strangers to each other’, who hover between
the normal and the abnormal, between speaking and not speaking, between seeing and not seeing – offering a threefold view of loneliness.

Dates & tickets

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Location

Théâtre National

Running time

2 hours

Language

Sung in German
Surtitles in Dutch and French

Gallery

Gallery

© Kurt Van der Elst
© Kurt Van der Elst
© Kurt Van der Elst
© Kurt Van der Elst
© Kurt Van der Elst
© Kurt Van der Elst
Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

ConductorFILIP RATHÉ
DirectorFABRICE MURGIA

MusicDAAN JANSSENS
Set designVINCENT LEMAIRE
LightingENRICO BAGNOLI
VideoGIACINTO CAPONIO
DramaturgyBARBARA ENGELHARDT

SopraniCÉCILE GRANGER, EKATERINA LEVENTAL
BaritonoRAIMUND NOLTE

EnsembleSPECTRA

ProductionLOD MUZIEKTHEATER
Co-realisationLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT, DESINGEL, SPECTRA, LES THÉÂTRES DE LA VILLE DE LUXEMBOURG, LE MAILLON – THÉÂTRE DE STRASBOURG SCÈNE EUROPÉENNE, ARTARA
Co-presentationLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL
With the support ofENOA, ACCORD DE COOPÉRATION CULTURELLE COMMUNAUTÉ FRANÇAISE ET COMMUNAUTÉ FLAMANDE / CULTUREEL AKKOORD VLAAMSE EN FRANSE GEMEENSCHAP