Ezelsbrug is an optimistic, colourful play in which the memory and personal recollections of the participants take the audience to distant, fabulous places. Folk tales, fairy tales and legends from different continents are interpreted, played, sung and told by them in the language of their new home: Dutch. The music was composed especially for the piece and a designer from the Flanders Opera created the costumes.
On a metaphorical journey, we return to the essence of the narrative, to pure words that are a distorted mirror image of a memory. What role does oral tradition play in a technologised society where the coexistence of people from different cultures is hampered by mutual misunderstanding? How can migrants cope with a new language that reflects the collective memory of a people they do not know?
Donkey Bridge is an "invitation au voyage" that lets people communicate with each other about grand human themes and cross-cultural small-mindedness.
Participants
Abdelfattah Oidi (Morocco), Alexander Londono Gomez (Colombia), Anastasia Galvita (Russia), Angelina Balkaen (Ukraine), Chloi Makri (Greece), Elham Tavoosi (Iran), Gladys Ongeri (Kenya), Harold Daniels (Ghana), John Lester Aguila (Philippines), Joy Llano (Philippines), Mahboubeh Sedaghat (Iran), Mihaela Moldovan (Romania), Yoandris Patterson (Cuba)
Artistic team
Directed by Sophie Cocheteux-Depraeter
Dramaturgy: Barbara Van Praet
Music and sound: Jean-Pierre Bouchard-Rees and Robert Leiner
Lighting: Alexander Coppenolle
Choreography: Davy Desloovere
Scenography: Tom Opdenakker
Costumes: Naiara Beistegui Idigoras
Producer: vzw Ceslestial Mekaniks
In co-production with
CVOGENT and at' De Vieze Gasten
Performances in May and June were in co-presentation with at' De Vieze Gasten, NTGent and Minardschouwburg.
Supported by
Solico sound & light rental, Coppenolle Drukkerij BVBA , ACP Productions, vzw SOL.I.DAR.GENT, Life Danscenter Izegem, City of Ghent