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22 nd & 23 rd 09.

20:00

TERAZUE THEATRE

Before Your Very Eyes is the final part of a CAMPO trilogy of theatre works with children, made for an adult audience. The piece was created and directed by the German Gob Squad theatre collective. For the first time in their history, the Gob Squad artists do not appear onstage themselves instead directing a group of seven Flemish children. In their 'safe room’ made of one-way mirrors through which they can’t see the audience, the children peer into the future at themselves as adults, and nostalgically back at their recent past. And as we try to stop the process of aging and preserve youth as long as we can, they prepare to leave childhood behind forever.

Gob Sqad creative team: Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will Performance coach: Pascale Petralia Performers: Martha Balthazar, Spencer Bogaert, Faustijn De Ruyck, Gust Hamerlinck, Zoe Luca, Jeanne Vandekerckhove, Ineke Verhaegen Technicians: Bart Huybrechts and Korneel Coessens Photography: Phile Deprez Serbian Translation: Irena Rzevski Production: Campo

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