At their first meeting,
nearly ten years ago,
they knew each other very well,
it was actually a recognition,
then they had to get to know each other less well,
over the years they became strangers to each other,
from now on they had to stop knowing each other, to deny, to forget,
to each go their own way.
A young woman is at home, getting ready to receive her lover, or rather ex-lover, who left her a year ago, in fact she doesn’t believe in the word ex-lover, one is a lover or isn’t, it’s not because you say it’s over that it is truly over, no, she’s not a great one for decisions as he obviously is, she can never keep her feelings under control, but tonight she’s determined to bear up bravely and to pretend she’s well, she’s feeling excited, insecure, glad, sad, she doesn’t know what to wear or which music to play, it’s as if with each garment and each song comes another woman, another course of events for the evening, perhaps another course of events for the rest of her life.
Lucia smelt/Lucia Melts is the first stage play by the Dutch-Brussels novelist Oscar van den Boogaard. It was commissioned by tg Stan for Sara De Roo and Steven Van Watermeulen.
In Dutch
text Oscar van den Boogaard
by and with Sara De Roo and Steven Van Watermeulen
set design B-architecten
lighting design Hans Meijer
English translation Kate Mayne
many thanks to Manon De Boer, Kees Vuyk and Lucia Rymenans
production tg STAN
premiere 28 June 2001, Kaaitheater, Brussels
premiere English version 27 March 2003, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
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Kaaitheater
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Bruxelles
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Kaaitheater
Bruxelles
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Theater im Pumpenhaus
Münster
september
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De Nieuwe Vorst
Tilburg
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Toneelschuur
Haarlem
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Haarlem
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october
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CC Maasmechelen
Maasmechelen
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Grand Theatre
Groningen
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Grand Theatre
Groningen
Fri 11.10.02
kunstencentrum nona
Mechelen
Sat 12.10.02
Plaza Futura
Eindhoven
Fri 18.10.02
LAKtheater
Leiden
Sat 19.10.02
LAKtheater
Leiden
2001
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Kaaitheater
Bruxelles
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Bruxelles
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Bruxelles
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