PETER MISSOTTEN

ON THE OPEN ROAD (De Wilde Wilde Weg) - Peter Vandemeulebroecke & Peter Missotten - Toneelhuis 2008




All Photography © Koen Broos

ON THE OPEN ROAD is a comic and cynical fable of two characters condemned to each other by fate. They move away from a splintered country. Away from the endlessly bickering factions, the wrangling, the rival politicians with their secret agendas. Away from The Deep Crisis. On the road to paradise. Like Laurel and Hardy in search of the Holy Grail.
Their conversations are razor sharp provocative and extremely funny at the same time. Thanks in part to his witty dialogues, American-Serbian author Steve Tesich once won the Oscar for best original screenplay.
After three previous small-scale projects for Toneelhuis, De Filmfabriek now occupies the main stage of the Bourla. For ON THE OPEN ROAD, Peter Missotten and Peter Vandemeulebroecke are remodeling the Bourla theater into a grimly hilarious place of mischief. "As a concept: we open the doors of the Bourla, throw in a few hand grenades and come back the next day to look at our set," Missotten said.





No sensible artist dares to claim anymore that his work encompasses all of existence, but the Film Factory comes close anyway with its staging of Steve Tesich's "On the open road. Rarely did such blackness deliver so much viewing pleasure as well.
De Morgen Wouter Hillaert dec.* 2008





with
BENNY CLAESSENS DRIES VANHEGEN
JOOP KEESMAAT JOOST STELTENPOOL NIK VAN DEN BERG

Concept, set design & direction
PETER MISSOTTEN & PETER VANDEMEULEBROECKE

Lights
PETER MISSOTTEN

Costumes
KAREL VAN LAERE





Text
STEVE TESICH

Translation
DRIES VANHEGEN

Dramaturgy
ELLEN STYNEN

Production
TONEELHUIS & DE FILMFABRIEK










All Photography © Koen Broos