No Comment

The years I spent alone, when people thought I was mad, I was full of feelings. It is hard to feel if you are alone. But it is only then that you feel the real things. Because you cannot express them. Because they can never be used. Because there is no such thing as pity when one is alone. Because self-pity is pointless, no use for anything at all.
Usefulness is the only criterion.
(Jan Lauwers)

You might say
I’d never do such a thing
how do you know?
you say: because that’s not the kind of person I am
But you don’t know.
(Charles Mee)

I would like to see the tea pouring upwards out of the spout for once. That everything is suddenly different. Not in the cup. Up in the air. Flying away. Perhaps into a completely different cup, somewhere else. That everything is suddenly completely different. I don’t even have to know how. Different. That’s all. That I look at something and think: different. At anything at all...
(Josse De Pauw)

No Comment focuses on the fate of four women who look back at lives marked by radical choices, violence, transgression and desire. New monologues were written specially for the Needcompany’s female icons, Grace Ellen Barkey, Viviane De Muynck and Carlotta Sagna, by Josse De Pauw, Jan Lauwers and Chuck Mee respectively. As always in her work at Needcompany, Tijen Lawton will perform a dance solo with an obviously personal approach, combined with a musical creation for which the three other actresses provide their voices and six composers have engaged in a one-off joint venture.

 

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The years I spent alone, when people thought I was mad, I was full of feelings. It is hard to feel if you are alone. But it is only then that you feel the real things. Because you cannot express them. Because they can never be used. Because there is no such thing as pity when one is alone. Because self-pity is pointless, no use for anything at all.
Usefulness is the only criterion.
(Jan Lauwers)

You might say
I’d never do such a thing
how do you know?
you say: because that’s not the kind of person I am
But you don’t know.
(Charles Mee)

I would like to see the tea pouring upwards out of the spout for once. That everything is suddenly different. Not in the cup. Up in the air. Flying away. Perhaps into a completely different cup, somewhere else. That everything is suddenly completely different. I don’t even have to know how. Different. That’s all. That I look at something and think: different. At anything at all...
(Josse De Pauw)

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