This door is too small (for a bear)
© Phile Deprez

Premiere 
Kaaitheater, Brussels 
25, 26, 27 February 2010 

Concept 
Lemm&Barkey 

Choreography, direction 
Grace Ellen Barkey 

Created with & performed by 
Misha Downey, Julien Faure, Yumiko Funaya, Benoît Gob, Sung-Im Her, Maarten Seghers 

Music 
Rombout Willems 

Stage setting, costumes 
Lot Lemm 

A Needcompany production. 

Coproduction: ImPulsTanz (Vienna), PACT Zollverein (Essen), künstlerhaus mousonturm (Frankfurt). 

With the collaboration of Kaaitheater (Brussels). 

With the support of the Flemish authorities.

Washy washy washy 
Round and round 
And makes nice sound 
Never be dirty 
Always be clean 
That’s why we have a washing machine 

This a fact: there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand in the Sahara desert. Imagine that everything could speak. What a noise! Cosmic soundscape! Unbind your mind! International absurdities, universal illusions, cosmic disorientation. That’s what we need to keep mother earth spinning! 
-Grace Ellen Barkey- 

The productions of Grace Ellen Barkey are surreal and permeated by absurd humour: grand failure, the tragedy of a clown, the clumsy barbarity of sexuality. Her increasingly intensive cooperation with the artist Lot Lemm resulted in the Lemm&Barkey label. Together, they seek out radically poetic images in a grotesque world. 

The theatre magazine Etcetera described watching Barkey’s production Chunking (2005) as ‘looking at an untranslated, uninterpreted fantasy’. 

In This door is too small (for a bear), Grace Ellen Barkey has created a visual idiom of her own that adds to her quest for ‘how to free your mind’, looking for that part of the mind that has not yet been fathomed. Frank Zappa’s motto, "To me, absurdity is the only reality", is the thread that runs through her new production, in which she balances between surrealism and the psychedelic.

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Premiere 
Kaaitheater, Brussels 
25, 26, 27 February 2010 

Concept 
Lemm&Barkey 

Choreography, direction 
Grace Ellen Barkey 

Created with & performed by 
Misha Downey, Julien Faure, Yumiko Funaya, Benoît Gob, Sung-Im Her, Maarten Seghers 

Music 
Rombout Willems 

Stage setting, costumes 
Lot Lemm 

A Needcompany production. 

Coproduction: ImPulsTanz (Vienna), PACT Zollverein (Essen), künstlerhaus mousonturm (Frankfurt). 

With the collaboration of Kaaitheater (Brussels). 

With the support of the Flemish authorities.

Tour

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February 2010
25 FebBrussels BEKaaitheater Premiere
26 FebBrussels BEKaaitheater
27 FebBrussels BEKaaitheater
April 2010
28 AprMarseille FRThéâtre Le Merlan
29 AprMarseille FRThéâtre Le Merlan
May 2010
20 MayFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
21 MayFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
22 MayFrankfurt am Main DEKünstlerhaus Mousonturm
June 2010
11 JunGijón ESLABORAL ESCENA
12 JunGijón ESLABORAL ESCENA
July 2010
04 JulMons BEMars
October 2010
16 OctStrombeek-Bever BECC Strombeek
20 OctBruges BECC Brugge
27 OctLeuven BEStadsschouwburg Leuven
29 OctTongeren BECC De Velinx
December 2010
17 DecEssen DEPACT Zollverein
18 DecEssen DEPACT Zollverein
January 2011
11 JanSantiago de Chile CLFestival Internacional Santiago a Mil
12 JanSantiago de Chile CLFestival Internacional Santiago a Mil
13 JanSantiago de Chile CLFestival Internacional Santiago a Mil
March 2011
18 MarSevilla ESTeatro Central
19 MarSevilla ESTeatro Central
23 MarGranada ESTeatro Alhambra
April 2011
06 AprGhent BEKunstencentrum Vooruit
07 AprGhent BEKunstencentrum Vooruit
27 AprTurnhout BEde Warande
May 2011
28 MayBiałystok PLBiałostockim Ośrodkiem Kultury
June 2011
14 JunVienna ATBurgtheater
15 JunVienna ATBurgtheater
17 JunVienna ATBurgtheater
18 JunVienna ATBurgtheater
19 JunVienna ATBurgtheater
September 2011
27 SepThe Hague NLTheater aan het Spui
October 2011
08 OctThessaloniki GRDimitria Festival
13 OctMontpellier FREPIC du Domaine d'O
14 OctMontpellier FREPIC du Domaine d'O
15 OctMontpellier FREPIC du Domaine d'O
November 2011
10 NovToulouse FRThéâtre Garonne
11 NovToulouse FRThéâtre Garonne
12 NovToulouse FRThéâtre Garonne
February 2012
17 FebAarhus DKBora Bora - Dance and visual theatre
18 FebAarhus DKBora Bora - Dance and visual theatre
April 2014
16 AprBogotá COFestival Iberoamericano de Teatro Bogotá
17 AprBogotá COFestival Iberoamericano de Teatro Bogotá
18 AprBogotá COFestival Iberoamericano de Teatro Bogotá
19 AprBogotá COFestival Iberoamericano de Teatro Bogotá
19 AprBogotá COFestival Iberoamericano de Teatro Bogotá
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