The Crusaders

Agora

Company
Based in the region bordered by Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Agora is one of Belgium’s best known theatre companies. Often drawing on their own content, their productions for adults and children stand out for their equally radical and poetic approach.

Performance
This piece renders an oppressively intense and harrowing commentary on the crusades of the present. At the hospice, Sister Mama Zara is trying to heal war victims of their traumas, to prepare them for a new crusade. At a benefit revue replete with an invalid choir, live music and a tombola, the perfidious bride of Christ demonstrates the effectiveness of her healing methods and offers an insight into the voyeuristic practices of the relevant television shows while she’s at it. For tear therapy isn’t the only thing to hint at the kind of methods that might be meant …

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Director: Marcel Cremer
Performers: Sascha Bauer, Zoé Kovacs, Eno Krojanker, Kurt Pothen, Andreas Schmid, Dirk Schwantes, Viola Streicher, Matthias Weiland, Katja Wiefel
Music: Gerd Oly
Film: Christiane Hommelsheim

When: Saturday, Nov. 3rd, 8.00 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Duration: 90 min