A Clockwork Orange
d'Electrique/punkgroup The EX
July 5, 2005 - December 30, 2006
1.45 hours
Location Festival Over Het IJ
Tour through The Netherlands
655321. Alex is a number once he became a prisoner. The number 655321.
This adaptation was the theatre hit of 2005. Performed sold out for 5 weeks in festival over het IJ. After invited on tour in mai 2007 in the main theatres in The Netherlands. This performance is disturbing, alarming, full of hallucination and optical illusion. Ola Mafaalani presents a cocktail of opera, heavy punk (The Ex) and text theatre in a set that takes away your breath.
Alex enjoys hitting, raping, intimidating without any empathy until he get’s arrested. There he becomes an object, a number: 655321, for an experiment to make him a good citizen in a confined society. Horrible violence of the state towards him, experimental treatment allows the question of who is more sick: the government or its young generation. Who is more heartless.
‘A Clockwork Orange’ from Anthony Burgess (1962) is world famous after Stanley Kubrick’s film made in 1971.
Cast
Ko van den Bosch (Alex), Bart Klever, Malou Gorter Merijn de Jong, Daniël Bernoulli (opera), Lonneke van Leth (dance en choreography)
Punkband The Ex
Terrie Hessels, Andy Moor, Katharina Bornefeld and Jos Kleij.
Author
Anthony Burgess
Director
Ola Mafaalani
Set design
Andre Joosten
Dramaturg
Dirkje Houtman
Alex. A leader for a group to hit and kill as much as they can physically bare. An with so much joy in violence. A vital and funny man that feels no empathy at all. A man that got caught and became a test object for science. A man that the system breaks until he becomes an empty body.
Photo: Sanne Peper
Photo: Sanne Peper
Photo: Sanne Peper
Mafaalani attacs in this performance the populism in politicians.
A Clockwork Orange was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language books from 1923 to 2005.
Newspaper Trouw wrote: ‘Tot het einde toe blijft Alex eenzaam maar vastbesloten, zijn woede trouw en fulmineert hij onafgebroken tegen middelmatigheid, lafheid, gemakzucht en onverschilligheid’ waarmee hij tegelijk ook de ideeën van d’Electrique lijkt te willen ventileren. Krachtig, betrokken theater’ (de Volkskrant). ‘Met deze enscenering maakte d’Electrique een verhalend, oorverdovend en even raadselachtig als levendig gestileerd bericht uit de onderwereld’.
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