Ferenc Balcaen - Enclosed Garden

Next year, Ferenc Balcaen will present a new theatre production at ntgent. For this work, he explores melancholy as both an aesthetic and existential experience: focusing on loss, memory, change and the desire to hold on to what is passing. In preparation, Balcaen is experimenting with installations and small performances, among other things. During the residency, Balcaen and his team are working on Enclosed Garden, an installation that serves as a preliminary design for the scenography. A contemporary echo, a garden within walls. Silent, secluded. In bloom behind monastery walls, among relics and embroidery, in the hands of Beguines. A place of prayer, beauty and meaning. A hortus conclusus.

direction Ferenc Balcaen dramaturgy Marie Peeters light design Dennis Diels decor design Lars Uten costume design Lynn Vanhoydonck music design Rint Mennes, Mees Vervuurt, Mireille Capelle head of production Klaas Lievens head of technical production Chris Vanneste Coordination decoratelier Thierry Dhondt Producer ntgent