UitgePERSt
A media satire for the uninitiated

Extra representations in March 2010:
Friday 5th, Saturday 6th at 8pm
and Sunday 7th at 3pm
Groeningerplein 2, 2140 Borgerhout (map)
Book at info@sering.be or 03-272.03.30
tickets: 6€ / 3€ (-12/65+)

The editors board of 'The Future' faces a profound restructuring operation.
The newspaper gets a facelift.
Everything to please the readers.
This causes tensions at the office.
The editors are worried: is news becoming a merchandise?
Is the difference still clear between publicity and news?
Who decides what is news and what will be suppressed?

"The wall that existed between the marketing division and the editors room is full of holes", reporters say.
What are the consequences of this for the reader, the listener and the viewer ?

Discussions with journalists, tons of scientific literature, interviews with newspaper readers and internal debates between the actors are processed into a theatre text that shows in an absurd way how the logics of the market can't always be reconciled with the prevailing norms of journalism.

Actors: Kalifa Bals, Souliman De Croock, Rania Gaaloul, Mia Grijp, Rebecca Huys and Xuan Nguyen • director: Lisette Mertens

Droomreizigers II

A village... in a not so distant past. People live in harmony with each other. but the town brings laws, judges and notaries. It strives for the ground. 'They build fences, we tore them down. They rebuild them... we tore them down again. It looked like child's play, but it went out of hand... just like child's play sometimes does...' A number of villagers organise themselves. They use violence, the town reacts with still more violence.

Wiebel, Droge and Jeep each have their problems. They meet every day.
Three musketeers against the rest of the world?
The play is suited for everyone over 10 years of age.

with Rania Gaaloul, Souliman De Croock en Raouf Hadj Mohamed
written and directed by Lisette Mertens

School performances at Sering or at school can be booked at: info@sering.be or 03-272.03.30.

Both actors play characters based on real events. Cathy is a passionate saver, and Bert is her adopted little brother from Africa.

with Rebecca Huys and Kalifa Bals
written and directed by Rebecca Huys and Mia Grijp

The play is suited for everyone over 8 years of age.

School performances at Sering or at school can be booked at: info@sering.be or 03-272.03.30.

Women from different corners of the world join voices to tell of a shared and ineffable dream of romance, companionship, marriage and chaos.

A village... in a not so distant past.
People live in harmony among each other and with their surroundings.
Until the wolves come. The White Wolves. An army with a calling. Blinded by their ideal, they hunt down anyone who doesn't want to follow them.
Many village people run away. They get lost in a new world. Behind huge city walls.
But the past continues to haunt them. It lives a life of its own.
They want to return to their village. Looking for answers, family,... a hearth.

After a successful tour along Flemish Cultural Centres (2006-07), Mostafa Benkerroum also played Strange Grannies in the Netherlands, starting from the Dutch première in Amsterdam on September 23th, 2007.
Starting from October 1st, 2008, Souliman De Croock takes over, in a newly directed, more dynamic version. The first representations of the new series have already been played in Bussum and Rotterdam, and in November 2009, Vreemde Grootmoeders was staged again at Sering.

• Theatres, cultural centres and schools that want to organise a representation of Vreemde Grootmoeders are welcome to contact us at Sering

Are you ready for the big trip?
Because today, we're leaving for Parsonia.
The most beautiful country in the whole world.

For everybody over 4 y.o., by two young actors,
Xuan Nguyen and Robert Grovogui Goua, directed by Tania Poppe

School and travel representations (from September 2010 onwards) of Parsonia can be booked at Sering!

A thriller about a 25th wedding anniversary.

16 regular adult participants at Sering developed a scenario for a wedding anniversary. At the end of August 2006, the actors laid the foundation for this play with a day long improvisation. Starting from this basis the characters, dialogues and the structure were elaborated. When the players chose their roles, the one of the groom remained open, and that became a red thread in the production. The result is a feast, at which volcanos above and under the table are waiting to erupt.

Chaotic images, extreme masks, the 'crash' of an individual, all is registered and edited for the show. Suffering becomes a commodity. The camera is always present. Except there were people dig deeper... where they want to remember in an epoch of imposed amnesia...

Twenty-five actors from Antwerp sing and play what the search for past and future of the human species has put into motion for them.