Tim Etchells / Victoria
That Night Follows Day

In the beginning an image: Seventeen children between eight and fourteen years old, arranged as a formal group, in strict rows, face forward. As so often to be seen in class photos, as choir members or football teams. An image of discipline, an image of performers in a strict arrangement, ready to speak, to sing, to play and – always implicit – to please.

It is an image that will change in the course of the evening, playfully, inevitably.

“That Night Follows Day” starts out from observations as to how the adult world shapes the world of children. A play for adults, performed by children.

Although Tim Etchells – author and director of the style-forming British company Forced Entertainment – has been shaping the international theatre scene for years, “That Night Follows Day” is something new: While the Belgian production platform Victoria has already caused a stir with notable works for young performers, this is Etchells’ first play with children. With humour and great clarity, the evening explores the economies of parenthood, upbringing, discipline, control and care that define the adolescents’ worlds.

As so often in his equally poetical and analytical works, Etchells also turns the spotlight on the actual situation of the performance:

In “That Night Follows Day”, this revolves around the social and aesthetic construction that makes adults the audience, listening to children and adolescents on stage as they talk about the way adults project their

world onto them. But also about how both – adults and children – are imprisoned and shaped by language when they imagine and try to appropriate their own future.

Autorin / Autor, Text: Tim Etchells
Konzept / Idee: Tim Etchells
Regie: Tim Etchells
Bühnenbild, Ausstattung, Raumgestaltung: Richard Lowdon
Kostüme: Ann Weckx
Lichtregie: Nigel Edwards
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Tessa Acar
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Hannah Bailliu
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Michiel Bogaert
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Spencer Bogaert
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Lina Boudry
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Taja Boudry
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Tristan Claus
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Amber Coone
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Tineke De Baere
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Florian De Temmerman
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Yen Kaci
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Lana Lippens
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Jérome Marynissen
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Isotta Mergaert
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Aswin Van de Cotte
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Viktor Van Wynendaele
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Ineke Verhaegen
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Victoria