Marketplace 76
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A Needcompany production. In coproduction with Ruhrtriennale (Bochum)Burgtheater (Wenen)Holland Festival (Amsterdam). With the support of the Flemish authorities. 

Text, directing, set design 
Jan Lauwers 

With 
Grace Ellen Barkey, Anneke Bonnema, Hans Petter Dahl, Julien Faure, Yumiko Funaya, Benoît Gob, Sung-Im Her, Romy Louise Lauwers, Maarten Seghers, Emmanuel Schwartz/Jules Beckman, Catherine Travelletti, Jan Lauwers, Elke Janssens 

Composers 
Hans Petter Dahl, Maarten Seghers, Rombout Willems 

Dramaturgy & Subtitles 
Elke Janssens 

Assistant Choreographer 
Misha Downey 

Costumes 
Lot Lemm 

Première 
Ruhrtriennale, Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum 
7 September 2012

"The Boat Song" by Maarten Seghers.

Marketplace 76 is the darkest story Jan Lauwers has written for his high-spirited ensemble. With Lauwers himself in the role of narrator and leader of the brass band, Needcompany sings and dances the story of the village. A village that is mourning the consequences of a tragic explosion on the marketplace. 

The performers bring mourning and sorrow, incest and abduction, paedophilia and suicide to life in a passionate community full of excessive love, friendship, happiness and survival. The questions Jan Lauwers asks in the play go to the heart of twenty-first century politics. In a globalised world, the things that once held a society together – tradition, religion, ethnicity, nationality and so on – have lost their self-evident binding force. The possibility (or impossibility) of coexistence is the crucial issue in Jan Lauwers’ plays over the last decade: Isabella’s room (2004), The Lobster Shop (2006), The Deer House (2008) – together the Sad Face | Happy Face trilogy – are all stories about the forces that bind a group together or break it apart. 

In Marketplace 76 Jan Lauwers tells the story of the deliverance of a community. The market was and still is the starting and finishing point of demonstrations and events, expressions of the citizens’ will. It is the place for public speaking. The things that concern the community take place on the marketplace, and vice versa: whatever happens on the marketplace concerns the community. The epic play gives Lauwers the opportunity to let the village undergo a sort of psychoanalysis.

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A Needcompany production. In coproduction with Ruhrtriennale (Bochum)Burgtheater (Wenen)Holland Festival (Amsterdam). With the support of the Flemish authorities. 

Text, directing, set design 
Jan Lauwers 

With 
Grace Ellen Barkey, Anneke Bonnema, Hans Petter Dahl, Julien Faure, Yumiko Funaya, Benoît Gob, Sung-Im Her, Romy Louise Lauwers, Maarten Seghers, Emmanuel Schwartz/Jules Beckman, Catherine Travelletti, Jan Lauwers, Elke Janssens 

Composers 
Hans Petter Dahl, Maarten Seghers, Rombout Willems 

Dramaturgy & Subtitles 
Elke Janssens 

Assistant Choreographer 
Misha Downey 

Costumes 
Lot Lemm 

Première 
Ruhrtriennale, Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum 
7 September 2012

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September 2012
06 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012 Try-Out
07 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012 Premiere
08 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012
13 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012
14 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012
15 SepBochum DERuhrtriënnale 2012
October 2012
04 OctVienna ATBurgtheater
05 OctVienna ATBurgtheater
06 OctVienna ATBurgtheater
07 OctVienna ATBurgtheater
08 OctVienna ATBurgtheater
12 OctBruges BEConcertgebouw Brugge
24 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
25 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
26 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
27 OctBrussels BEKaaitheater
November 2012
23 NovSevilla ESTeatro Central
24 NovSevilla ESTeatro Central
April 2013
12 AprFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
13 AprFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
14 AprFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
May 2013
14 MayVienna ATBurgtheater
15 MayVienna ATBurgtheater
16 MayVienna ATBurgtheater
17 MayVienna ATBurgtheater
18 MayVienna ATBurgtheater
30 MayAntwerp BEdeSingel
31 MayAntwerp BEdeSingel
June 2013
01 JunAntwerp BEdeSingel
21 JunAmsterdam NLHolland Festival
22 JunAmsterdam NLHolland Festival
28 JunPoznań PLMalta Festival Poznan
29 JunPoznań PLMalta Festival Poznan
July 2013
08 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
09 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
11 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
12 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
13 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
15 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
16 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
17 JulAvignon FRFestival d'Avignon
August 2013
06 AugVenice ITFondazione La Biennale di Venezia
September 2013
10 SepGeneva CHLa Bâtie
11 SepGeneva CHLa Bâtie
November 2013
12 NovBrussels BEKaaitheater
13 NovBrussels BEKaaitheater
18 NovMunich DETheaterfestival Spielart
21 NovSète FRScène Nationale de Sète et du Bassin de Thau
22 NovSète FRScène Nationale de Sète et du Bassin de Thau
February 2015
04 FebGhent BENTGent
05 FebGhent BENTGent
07 FebOstend BECC De Grote Post
March 2015
03 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
04 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
05 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
06 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
07 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
08 MarGennevilliers FRT2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers
11 MarBlois FRLa Halle aux Grains, scène nationale de Blois
12 MarBlois FRLa Halle aux Grains, scène nationale de Blois
17 MarMaastricht NLTheater aan het Vrijthof
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