1-7 © Tim Wouters
discordia and stan
de schrijver/de koning
tg stan and maatschappij discordia
play by
jon fosse
eg er vinden
ik ben de wind
i am the wind
(written in 2007)
(translation maaike van rijn, damiaan de schrijver, matthias de koning)
‘eg er vinden’, ‘ik ben de wind’
i am the wind
takes place on an imaginary sailboat, the act too is conceived,
fabricated, and must not be executed, but stay
imaginary.
there are two people:
the one (matthias de koning) and the other (damiaan de schrijver),
complete technique: tim wouters
(…) is it that way
the words become heavy
yes
but why is it that way
that is just the way it is (…)
It’s a rare thing for performers to read a theatre text and immediately decide to put it on stage, but that’s exactly what happened when Matthias de Koning (Maatschappij Discordia) and Damiaan De Schrijver (STAN) read Jon Fosse’s ‘Eg er vinden’. Between the large scale productions of their respective companies, they turned ‘Eg er vinden, Ik ben de wind’ into an intimate performance that requires just their presence, the bare language of Jon Fosse and the imagination of the audience.
Two men without a name, simply referred to as the One and the Other, meet again years after one of them left. They are together in an imaginary sailboat on a trip across the ocean. Their action is conceived, invented, and must not be performed but remain imaginary. As in much of Fosse’s work, language is very important. His language passes in minute variations and wraps around the voids. Silences mean as much as the words and what is not said is at least as important as the words spoken. It is up to the audience to fill the blank spaces. And to the actors. Damiaan De Schrijver and Matthias de Koning explore themes such as loneliness, identity and loss in this meditative dialogue with the minimum of props. Tragicomically, sometimes desperately, they get entangled in existential philosophies and the abstract text of Fosse.
‘Eg er vinden, Ik ben de wind’ is an intimate, poetic performance. A melancholic dialogue between two men who meander between loneliness and connection.
The performance was selected by the Flemish TheaterFestival as one of the leading performances of the theatre season ’18 -’19.
1-1 © Tim Wouters
In Dutch
text Jon Fosse ‘Eg er vinden’
translation Maaike Van Rijn, Damiaan De Schrijver, Matthias de Koning
by and with Damiaan De Schrijver and Matthias de Koning
production STAN and Maatschappij Discordia
technique Tim Wouters
costumes Elisabeth Michiels
special thanks to de KOE and Annette Kouwenhoven
“Performances such as ‘Eg er vinden, Ik ben de wind’ (…) enrich the art of acting and they should really be the benchmark for all theatre. The simplicity, however, is an insidious one; behind it lies an infinitely rich expressiveness and theatrical tension.”
Kester Freriks, Theaterkrant
“The extremely unadorned form that the makers have given the text fits the theme perfectly. The modest acting of the otherwise explosive De Schrijver strongly reflects his despair. On the contrary, De Koning intensifies his characteristic searching, almost absent-minded play, making the errant vulnerability of his character tangible. The chemistry between the actors, who have been opposing each other for decades, ensures that the friendship between the two men also feels layered.”
Marijn Lems, NRC
“It is pure poetry, imbued with meaning both in the design with primal elements (the brown sail, the sea, the bare rocks, the gray stones, the black suits) and in the philosophical texts.”
Margriet Prinsen, Haarlems Dagblad
2023
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