angel

2022

"Macht kommt von machen, etwas tun können" - Angela Merkel

Reverend’s daughter, Angela Kasner grew up in East Germany. Her aunt from West Germany often sent presents such as Levi’s jeans and a Beatles record. When the wall fell, she decided to let go of her scientific career and enter politics. "Whoever has been so positively surprised once in his life, thinks that a lot is possible", she says. Angela Kasner is a woman who exists.

angel is a performance about a woman who does not yet exist but who uses the same words as the real Angela. It’s a woman who, just like Angela, in her search for more and more possibilities, reaches the top of the world. The performance is a fictional portrait based on real speeches.

In angel we unleash the imagination on an important contemporary political figure. How far can you go in that imagination? When does that imagination become a lie? And when does that lie become a logical reality accepted by everyone? By dreaming the impossible, sometimes half of it becomes true.

performance Mieke Verdin en Nele Vereecken | text Joachim Robbrecht, Nele Vereecken en Mieke Verdin, | decor Sven Roofthooft | sound Lam Lai | light and photos Herman Sorgeloos | technique Wim Bernaers, Jeroen Wuyts en Koen De Saeger | production Kunstenwerkplaats | coproduction AGORA theatre Sankt Vith & KAAP | with thanks to arp, ARSENAAL / LAZARUS, De Brakke Grond, GC Nekkersdal, Felix Ensslin en Katja Dreyer | with the support of the Flemish Community, the Flemish Community Commission, Goethe-Institut Brussels, De Auteurs and Ars Vitha