Jan Lauwers. Needcompany is a theatercompany Needcompany is een theater gezelschap. Needcompany is a performance group. Needcompany is een performance group. Epigonentheater zlv. It's early productions, Need to Know and ça va, One of its more important characteristics is its transparent, 'thinking' acting and the paradox between acting and non-acting. This specific feature is also to be found in the only four pieces from the repertoire that he staged over this 15-year period (all of them Shakespeare). These were Julius Caesar , Antonius und Kleopatra , Needcompany's Macbeth and Needcompany's King Lear . Having directed Invictos, the monologue SCHADE/Schade and the opera Orfeo , The Snakesong Trilogy. Snakesong/Le Voyeur , Snakesong/Le Pouvoir and Snakesong/Le Désir. He created Caligula, the first part of he theatrical diptych - No beauty for me there where human life is rare. For the second part of No beauty, Morning Song, Jan Lauwers and Needcompany received an Obie-Award in New York. DeaDDogsDon'tDance/DjamesDjoyceDeaD, Kind, Images of Affection, No Comment, Isabella's Room (La Chambre d'Isabella - de Kamer van Isabella). Lauwers also has a number of film and video projects to his name, including From Alexandria , Mangia and Sampled Images, C-Song, Goldfish Game. Grace Ellen Barkey directed One, Don Quijote, Tres, Stories (histoires/verhalen), Rood Red Rouge, The Miraculous Mandarin, Few Things, (AND), Chunking, The Porcelain Project. De medewerkers van Needcompany : Dre Schneider - Lot Lemm - Maarten Vanden Abeele - Eveline Vanassche - Nico Leunen - Maarten van der Put - Grace Ellen Barkey - Viviane De Muynck - Anneke Bonnema - Hans Petter Dahl - Misha Downey - Tijen Lawton - Louise Peterhoff - Julien Faure - Benoit Gob - Maarten Seghers - Taka Shamoto - Inge Van Bruystegem - Christel Simons - Thijs De Ceuster - Inge Ceustermans - Luc Galle - Elke Janssens - Ken Hioco - Frank Van Elsen