With Vanessa Van Durme as the fascinating master of ceremonies, Gardenia deals with the issue of gender and LGBTIQ+ diversity without modesty, placing tenderness and concern on its eight characters. For each of them knows the price they had to pay to survive with the hope of seeing, one day perhaps, their dreams come true. Transgressive, cruel, funny or voluptuous, the numbers follow one another under the tarnished sunlights, to play his final tirade over and over again, to sing Somewhere over the Rainbow over and over again, to dance over and over again to Le Boléro. Or to do an anthology solo on Comme ils disent by Charles Aznavour! With an empty chair on stage dressed in Andrea De Laet's red dress, in memory of the late actress... Gardenia - 10 ans après has lost none of its strength, its truth, its dazzle. Then as now, gardenias never fade.
Gardenia – 10 ans après
Frank Van Laecke, Alain Platel, Steven Prengels
Ten years after its creation, Alain Platel and Frank Van Laecke reinterpret their famous cabaret and probe, with profound humanity, the intimate stories of ageing, transgender artists bound by the scratches of life. Like a bouquet of flowers offered to the audience, this is their last curtain call...
