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POL HEYVAERT |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Pol Heyvaert |
Aalst | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland, Victoria and Tramway | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61632 | |||
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Genre: | new Scottish version Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Pol Heyvaert and Dimitri Verhulst | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple check into a hotel with their two small children. A week passes before the police make a chilling discovery. In 1999, in the suburban town of Aalst, two parents murdered their children. The ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul searching in the Belgian media. In 2005 Belgian theatre company, Victoria, dramatised the case, working from source material including statements and interviews, TV footage of the trial and a documentary on the murder investigation. Produced in theatres and festivals across Europe, Aalst has built a reputation as a powerful and complex piece of modern theatre which raises disturbing questions - questions that have no easy answer. Aalst is a production based on real events, born in Europe, re-worked, re-shaped and re-imagined for a Scottish audience by a brilliant and eclectic creative team. | |||||
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Girl X | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123406 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Text by Pol Heyvaert, Robert Softley and Bart Capelle | |||||
Synopsis: | Eleven year old Maggie Mills has severe cerebral palsy and the mental age of a 5-month old infant. Her condition will not and cannot change or improve. Her mother believes that the physical changes that accompany adolescence can only bring distress and requests that surgeons remove her daughter's womb. The Mills case is examined from the point of view of the onlookers, a Greek chorus that asks what could or should happen next. Performer and disabled rights activist Robert Softley challenges this chorus and the heartwrenching, highly contested ethical issues that surround the case. When do private matters become public concern? Is the majority always right? Where will it all end? | |||||
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