Performance

• In the Flesh
  Billy Cowie
• How do you like my landscape
  Manah Depauw and Bernard Van Eeghem
• Critical Encounters 1: Encountering Children and Animals
  
• bahok
  Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China
• Lipstick and Lollypops
  Deafinitely Theatre
• The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
  Bock and Vincenzi
• From Where I am Standing
  Junction 25
• Old people, children and animals
  Quarantine
• Peeping at Bosch
  Ian Smith and Mischief La-Bas
• The Porcelain Project
  Needcompany
• The Lobster Shop
  Needcompany

The Lobster Shop

Needcompany
www.needcompany.org

The Lobster Shop tells the story of Axel and Theresa. His son dies as a result of a stupid accident. His sorrow destroys everything, and when no therapy seems to help and his wife leaves him, Axel decides to commit suicide.

On the day he has chosen he puts on his best suit and by way of farewell goes to his favourite restaurant, ‘The Lobster Shop’, to eat just one more lobster with armorican sauce. But the waiter trips and the lobster with its armorican sauce ends up on Axels white suit. In the fraction of a second while Axel is watching the sauce land on his white suit, his ritual is destroyed and he sees his whole life blowing up in his face.

The Lobster Shop is the description of this fraction of a second.

For Jan Lauwers, Axel’s tragedy is a means by which to raise the question of humanity and dehumanisation, and he argues the beauty of the imperfect and the unpredictable.

“This play was written in the solitude of hotel rooms, the television always on. Cynical realism and romantic sentimentality increasingly form the main accent in just about every conversation carried on today, and are therefore an inevitable component of this play. I have wallowed in them with pleasure and sincerely hope that the end of mankind is not just around the corner.”
Jan Lauwers, Artistic Director and founder of Needcompany

Image: Eveline Vanassche

• Thu 30 - Wed 1 Oct 2008

  8:00pm

  Tramway 1

  £12 / £6