Images of Affection
© Maarten Vanden Abeele

"Then everything went silent... silent... and this silence... they knew... was their greatest enemy. They knew that this silence should not be. That this silence was not a silence but a threat.
They knew that if they were able to make this silence inaudible… That nothing evil could happen... that they would then be, yes, invincible and would at last be able to reorder the secrets, the mysteries of life.
Reordering, that was the aim.
And with a mathematical precision and a dedication one now only found in very young people, they decided to make the undoable doable. And they failed, of course.”
Images of Affection, Jan Lauwers

“Love it and trust it and leave. ”
( Don DeLillo )

Images of Affection is a play created on the occasion of Images of Affection is a story based on a lie. It is about the lie of perception. About the way the emptiness in time and space is filled up by the lie. A story entangled in a network of contradictory details. The paradox of the truth and how it penetrates everywhere and fills the emptiness with coloured reality.
A story with no end or beginning. Two paradoxes that meet in the middle and destroy each other. A construction is built out of images of affection. Each construction also signifies a deconstruction. Tenderness degenerates into violence, horror becomes affection. The transformation from violence to affection and vice versa. Everything that is present is imaginary, everything that is warm will become cold again.Everything that is clear becomes dark, darkness can be illuminated.The memory of the past becomes an unwitting future.What does a lie or a proclaimed truth mean in the light of the performance? The chronicle of a death foretold.
The tragic story of happiness.
But that is untrue too.


Images of Affection was selected for the Theaterfestival, edition 2002.

 

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"Then everything went silent... silent... and this silence... they knew... was their greatest enemy. They knew that this silence should not be. That this silence was not a silence but a threat.
They knew that if they were able to make this silence inaudible… That nothing evil could happen... that they would then be, yes, invincible and would at last be able to reorder the secrets, the mysteries of life.
Reordering, that was the aim.
And with a mathematical precision and a dedication one now only found in very young people, they decided to make the undoable doable. And they failed, of course.”
Images of Affection, Jan Lauwers

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