Ophelia

Director Inne Goris seeks answers from Ophelia, het beroemde dode meisje, drijvend in een vijver vol bloemen uit Shakespeares 'Hamlet'.

Being in love = a tickling in your toes
waiting for that one question
searching for the most beautiful words
doubting everything
chaos in your head
practising saying 'yes'
pain
going crazy
starting anew
giggling helplessly

Twelve girls. They don't know much about love yet. But one thing is certain: one thing they don't want is to be driven crazy by love and end up in a pond full of flowers, like Shakespeare's Ophelia. There must be other ways to tame love, to cherish longing and to care for grief.

Ophelia is an intimate film installation. The audience is immersed in the emotional world of twelve young Ophelias.
By means of still images, fragments of text and music, they pass on their lessons about that one huge emotion: love. Passionate, compelling, funny and sometimes a bit sad.

hetpaleis, LOD muziektheater en Opera Ballet Vlaanderen presenteren op de scène twaalf jonge Ophelia's, drie strijkers en een percussionist. Honderden liefdesverhalen uit Gent en Antwerpen leverden inspiratie voor Ophelia, een meeslepende muziektheatervoorstelling voor iedereen vanaf 8 jaar die verliefd is, was of het worden wil.

Thomas Smetryns and SPECTRA first worked together in 2003: old love does not rust.