AFTER ALL SPRINGVILLE

A comic book coming to life with a walking table, a colorful-smoking cottage and a frustrated fuse box about the tragic failure of a community. In it, an explosive narrative unfolds around a colorful-smoking cardboard house, its inhabitants and the neighborhood: an elegant walking table that would like nothing better than to be set, a man who wants to take out the trash, a frustrated fuse box and a very long pair of pants go through big and small dramas with varying degrees of slapstick and disaster potential. With the lightness of a cartoon, the tragic story of a failed community is told. And because all this could hardly be more topical, Warlop is now restaging her iconic work twelve years after its world premiere under the title AFTER ALL SPRINGVILLE.

A performance for audiences aged 14 and over. 

Concept and Direction: Miet Warlop  
Performance: Hanako Hayakawa/Ching Shu Huang/Jef Hellemans, Emiel Vandenberghe/Vladimir Babinchuk, Margot Masquelier/Margarida Ramalhete, Milan Schudel/Jacobine Tone Kofoed, Wietse Tanghe/Freek De Craecker, Jarne Van Loon 
Costumes: Sofie Durnez 
Production manager: Rossana Miele 
Technical Coordination: Patrick Vanderhaegen 
Technical Crew : Eva Dermul, Jurgen Techel, Bart Van Hoydonck, Pieter Kinoli, Frieder Naumann 
Production: Miet Warlop / Irene Wool vzw 
Coproduction: HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin (DE), Arts Centre BUDA (BE), Arts Centre Vooruit (BE), PerPodium (BE), De Studio Antwerpen (BE), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (DE) 

premiere: 4 September 2021

“In Springville, Warlop sets an inventive course through moving tableaux vivants – which characterise her language – combined with Keatonesque slapstick. It delivers subtle theatre that holds up a penetrating and playful magnifying mirror to the world.”
Els Van Steenberghe, Knack 

“Super strong enthusiastic applause. We should have done 10 performances more.”
Andras Siebold, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel

With the support of The Belgian Tax Shelter, Flemish Authorities, City of Ghent (BE) 

Thanks to: Arts Centre CAMPO (BE), TAZ – Theater aan Zee & cc De Grote Post (BE), Amotec (BE) 

Contact & distribution: Frans Brood Productions