the wild stage

Welcome to The Wild Stage. A temporary zone where sound, bodies and impulses collide. Loosely circling Brecht and Weill’s dream city Mahagonny, oester follows the simple urge to escape. Not out of clarity, but out of overflow.

Casper Clausen, Timo Tembuyser, Jon Birdsong, Pieter Theuns, Adriaan de Roover, Matteo Sedda, Rob Hayden, Gustav Königs and Mustav Ahmeti move through a porous landscape of roles. Musicians drift into dance. Dancers slip into song. Forms appear, mutate, vanish.

What grows is a restless ecology of sound and image, sliding between pop, baroque and electronica. A stage in constant transformation, pulsing somewhere between concert, ritual and dream.

CONCEPT I DIRECTION Aïda Gabriëls

CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY Casper Clausen, Mustav Ahmeti, Matteo Sedda, Pieter Theuns (B.O.X.), Timo Tembuyser, Jon Birdsong (B.O.X.), Adriaan de Roover and Rob Hayden

LIBRETTO Ylona Supèr

DRAMATURGY Ylona Supèr, Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze

CHOREOGRAPHY Germán Jauregui

SCENOGRAPHY Mia Frykholm

COSTUMES Maarten Van Mulken

JEWELRY Yann Suhard

SOUND Korneel Moreaux, Pieter-Jan Buelens

LIGHT Harry Cole, Bram Vandeghinste

VISUALS Francis Vanhee

PRODUCTION Sebastiaan Peeters

DRAMATURGY INTERN Anuschka Carl

DIFFUSION Maja Lozic (Muziektheater Transparant), Dieter Craeye (Toutpartout)

SPECIAL THANKS TO Pieter D´Hooghe, Veerle Mans, Jan Dertaelen, Rudi Laermans, Guy Coolen, Kurt Overbergh, Peeping Tom


PRODUCTION oester and Muziektheater Transparant

CO-PRODUCTION Ancienne Belgique, CC Strombeek, Motel Mozaïque, B.O.X., Axel Vervoordt/Inspiratum, Needcompany and Perpodium

THANKS TO Troubleyn/Laboratorium (residency)


TAX SHELTER Perpodium

PRODUCED WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Flemish Government

“A feast for the ears. A mesmerising trumpet solo opens the show and sets the tone for an immersive listening experience. A not so obvious combination of genres and instruments (electronics meets baroque) creates a strikingly fresh sound.”

— De Standaard

“The Wild Stage is a bold, clever answer - or rather a very inventive remake - of the opera (Mahagonny).”

— Knack Focus

The Wild Stage; how green is the grass really on the other side of the curtain? (dramaturgical background)