circus & music theater

Light, lighter, lies

A day goes like this:
first
the sun must rise
then the sunflowers,
the children, the triangles,
and finally the parents
a day never is, it becomes
light, lighter, lies
then the moon comes
someone lights the stars
eat your cauliflower
brush your teeth
close your eyes
where is the light?

hetpaleis gives Post uit Hessdalen the keys to the Bus, their mobile theatre. Together with the cosy, dark sounds of drummer Frederik Meulyzer and saxophonist Lander Van den Noortgate and the luminous ideas of Caroline Mathieu, Post uit Hessdalen transforms the Bus into a performance for preschoolers about how you see things differently when you look at them in a different light. About a day that started well with a sunrise on Kiribati, but went downhill when someone dropped the stars.

An official from the Federal Public Service for Observation Affairs (FPSOA) Light Department takes the young audience on a journey into a world of light switches, sunrises and forgotten street lamps.

co-production of
hetpaleis & Post uit Hessdalen
concept & creation
Stijn Grupping & Ine Van Baelen
music
Frederik Meulyzer & Lander Van den Noortgate
scenography & lighting
Caroline Mathieu
play
Lotte Diependaele & Khalid Koujili El Yakoubi
voice
Aline Goffin
costumes
Nushi Lambreva

The Light, lighter, lies -bus drove around from 2021 to 2023, but has now permanently turned off its lights. All stops can be found on the website of hetpaleis.

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