Buses leave Cork City Centre travelling to a secret location.
Thursday 19 June, 8.30pm
Friday 20 & Saturday 21 June, 6.30pm and 8.30pm
Tickets €20/€15

‘… in making Braakland I wanted to make fear palpable, not to offend or to disgust, but to give the audience a feeling of comfort. The way you feel, I feel it too. The way you live, I live. The way you die, so shall I.’ Award winning director Lotte Van Den Berg on her production, Braakland.

Braakland tells in sober, penetrating images, a tale of nine figures wandering about a forgotten land. They surrender to the laws of living and dying, without defense. Is this something that they have chosen or merely failed to escape?

Award-winning director Lotte Van den Berg was inspired by the novels of J M Coetzee when making this astonishing piece of theatre. A performance without words, Braakland makes you feel the violence, the desolation and the poetry of Coetzee’s work.

Taking place in an immense wasteland, the experience of watching Braakland is like compelling live cinema. A line drawn in a landscape full of cruelties, without any apparent cause and effect, leading nowhere.

Compagnie Dakar was established in Holland in 2001 by artistic director, Guido Kleene. Guido was born in Dakar, Senegal and Compagnie Dakar’s artistic purpose is to explore the relationship and contrast between the European and African worldview. The company makes theatre work in Europe and Africa. Braakland is a performance for adults (16+)

Attendees should allow 2.5hrs for this show. This includes travel to site and actual show. Please be aware of weather conditions on the day and dress accordingly. This performance is seated.

Buses kindly sponsored by Bus Éireann. Special thanks to Howard Holdings.

Festival Director. “Why I chose this?” Braakland is a must-see for any serious theatre or film goer. Corcadorca’s Relocation meets the
films of Andrei Tarkovsky or Bela Tarr. Braakland is an intense and intelligent live experience.

Event Reviews

Sat 21 Jun 2008 Mary Leland in the Irish Times