FESTIVAL FABRE 2024 | ITALY

LOVE AND BEAUTY ARE THE POWERS SUPREME
L’AMORE E LA BELLEZZA SONO I POTERI SUPREMI

Love and beauty are recurring themes in Jan Fabre's theatre work.

Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is the theatre company of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre. Jan Fabre is a benchmark in Belgian, European and international theatre history. Since the late 1970s, Fabre has created a body of work that has caused a landslide in the performing arts. From the very start of his career, Fabre was invited to present his work in major international theatre houses. This international dimension of his work has only grown over the years. His unique place in the Western theatre canon was recently confirmed by his inclusion in the prestigious series The Great European Stage Directors (Methuen/Drama), supervised by the influential theatre historian Simon Shepherd. The series begins with Stanislavski and ends with Jan Fabre. The other two contemporaries included in the final volume of the eight-volume book series are Pina Bausch and Romeo Castellucci.

Fabre produces a huge variety of productions throughout his career. A constant therein is also the difference in format: besides the large group creations, he also has a preference for the monologues and the solos. They are always written on the body of his performers, interweaving motifs and fantasies from their own biography with obsessions of Fabre himself and thus often forming an ode to the main "warriors of beauty" as Fabre calls his performers. The monologues are also the main area of Fabre's dramatic oeuvre: they are texts in which Fabre questions artistry, sometimes comically, philosophically, politically, and always poetically. Many of these monologues and solos are in the repertoire for several seasons, performed in different languages and touring the world. Many of them have also been translated into several languages and published by prominent international publishers.  Jan Fabre’s theatre plays are published in Italian by Editoria & Spettacolo and the Night Diaries are published by Cronopio.

With this unique festival presented by TEATRO OUTxOFF, MILAN, multiple never-before-seen monologues will be showcased. These solos are conceptual in nature, poetic, and materialize ancient rituals and themes that fascinate Jan Fabre, as well as philosophical questions that obsess him.
 

JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP
10 DAY MASTERCLASS

MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER - FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 2024
@ TEATRO OUTxOFF, MILAN,
5 hours / day - 1 pm > 6 pm (Monday to Friday)

Teachers Irene Urciuoli and Matteo Sedda 

Following the remarkable experience of November 2023, Teatro Out Off will once again host a Jan Fabre Teaching Group for the FESTIVAL FABRE 2024

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PERFORMANCES 

SIMONA, THE GANGSTER OF ART
With Irene Urciuoli

Simona, the gangster of art, features a female saint, a protagonist who is on a mission to restore one of the most essential duties of humanity: to fight for the power of beauty... [READ MORE]

Italian spoken | English surtitles

IO SONO UN ERRORE | I AM A MISTAKE
With Irene Urciuoli

I am a mistake is a theatre text written by Jan Fabre in 1988. It is a manifest that amounts almost to a profession of faith by the artist. The blunt confession I am a mistake is like a mantra that repeats and divides... [READ MORE]

Italian spoken | English surtitles

*TICKETS: To make a reservation/ purchase tickets for ' Io sono un errore' at the Visconti Theater, Grazzano Visconti email iosonounerroregrazzano@gmail.com

I’M SORRY
With Stella Höttler

The character played by Stella Höttler is lost and confused in this post-wokeness world. Therefore, she apologizes for everything—for how she looks, for how she behaves, for what she says … She tries to find her way in the world of self-censorship... [READ MORE]

Italian spoken | English surtitles

ELLE ETAIT ET ELLE EST, MEME
With Els Deceukelier

She was and she is, even is inspired by Duchamp’s artwork, The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The Large Glass). Els Deceukelier plays a seductive bride situated in the twilight zone between reality and imagination... [READ MORE]

French spoken | Italian surtitles

I BELIEVE IN THE LEGEND OF LOVE
with Ivana Jozic

Jan Fabre wrote I believe in the legend of love in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, about loving and letting go....[READ MORE]

English spoken | Italian surtitles

GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1978-2012)
with Carolina Migli Bateson

Giornale Notturno is a visionary and disarming hymn by the artist Jan Fabre, offering an intimate and provocative journey through his life, from youth to the present day. His personal diaries merge into an autobiography that contrasts his daily experiences—rich with impressions, sensations, art, performances, exhibitions, and projects—with the intensity of his nocturnal world, which is even more intimate, overwhelming, and charged with creative fury....[READ MORE]

Italian spoken

*TICKETS: To make a reservation/ purchase tickets for ' Giornale Notturno  (1978 - 2012)' at the Visconti Theater, Grazzano Visconti email prenotazionigiornalenotturno@gmail.com

ANGELO DELLA MORTE (ANGEL OF DEATH)
with Elena Callegari & Mario Sala

Dedicated to William Forsythe and inspired by the figure of Andy Warhol, this powerful text by Jan Fabre features two androgynous characters who are gradually defining and interpenetrating each other in a mutual exchange of past identities...[READ MORE]

Italian spoken

Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is supported by the Flemish Community.
Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is sponsored by Katoen Natie.