Opening night: 26/01/2013
Next performances:
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Platonov is Don Juan and Hamlet in one.

By his own account, he loves all people, all women. He loves too much and too often, constantly drowning in his own insatiability. Platonov is a teacher who wants to give up teaching, the lead actor who’s had enough of acting, the spouse who’s about to cease functioning, the lover who wants to stop loving,… Despite his refusal, he remains the ideal man to the many women in his life. Eros and Thanatos are united inside him. Platonov, James Dean, Malcolm Lowry, Serge Gainsbourg, RW Fassbinder, Kurt Cobain,…

A production by NTGent

Elsie De Brauw
Briek Lesage
Katin Lohmann
Bert Luppes
Zoë Thielemans
Steven Van Watermeulen
Lien Wildemeersch
Peter Seynaeve
Hugo Vanden Berghe

Text Anton Chekhov
Adaptation Luk Perceval
Direction Luk Perceval
Scenography Philip Bussmann
Costumes Ilse Vandenbussche
Lighting Design Mark Vandenesse
Dramaturgy Koen Hagedorens
Music Jens Thomas
Choreography Ted Stoffer

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