Jef and Jos have known each other since childhood. They had big dreams, big projects, but they were Belgian, so they did not nothing except chat and drink beer.
Jef, I think, had wanted to go to the Congo, had wanted to become a doctor. He even got married at one point. Jos, for his part, wanted to find God in the belly of a woman.
However, these were but dreams, projects …
But, I hear you say, nothing happened in the lives of Jef and Jos! They did nothing, those two guys!
But doing nothing and drinking beer so fervently and for so long, isn’t that in itself already an adventure in and of itself?
Jef is a chronicle with the slightly bitter taste of hops and the slightly sweet taste of barley.
Spanning the period from 1940 to the death of Baudouin, King of the Belgians, in 1993, it stages four characters carried through life according to the sequence of events that unfolded in Belgium …
Credits
Direction : Frédéric Fonteyne
Performers : Michel Carcan, Pierre Sartenaer, Aylin Yay
Set : Anne Fournier
Costumes: Anne Fournier
Lighting : Denis Dufays
Sound : Laurent Graulus
Technique & Stage : Anid Lobato de Faria
Pictures : Denis Dufays
Press
Dans l'ancienne Ecole vétérinaire qui l'accueille, «Jef» pose ses marques sur une scène éclatée. D'emblée on décèle, dans une simplissime et remarquable utilisation des mots et de l'espace, sous la plume de Philippe Blasband et la mise en scène de Frédéric Fonteyne (par ailleurs réalisateur de courts métrages), un sens aigu du montage, que l'auteur (« La Lettre des Chats », « Une Chose intime ») a étudié à l'Insas et qui sert irrésistiblement la puissance de cette création. L’article complet
25/02/1995, Marie Baudet, La Libre Belgique
Photos
© Denis Dufays
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Dates
- 16/02/1995 → 04/03/1995: Ancienne Ecole Vétérinaire, Bruxelles (BE)