10 YEARS OF ABATTOIR FERMÉ:
GALAPAGOS (HOME)
"This hotel is weird.
There are far too many dark corridors
and too few light bulbs working.
Here and there, it stinks.
I think I'm the only one staying here.
Except for him, of course.
Him on the third floor, me on the first.
There's a bible in every room.
And at night, when wandering through the hallways,
I can hear prayers.
This hotel is huge; and I'm so very small..."
Especially for its 10th birthday, Abattoir revisits
an acclaimed older piece from its repertoire.
Galapagos, which was created in 2004 and selected for the '05 edition
of the Flemish/Dutch Theaterfestival, is without a doubt one of the company's
key performances: a "piercing and filmic tableau" about universal
fears and obsessions at the dawn of a new millennium. Created years before
the 'speechless performances' like Tourniquet and Mythobarbital,
this Galapagos is a 'text-piece' in which the visual contours of
Abattoir's later work can already clearly be discerned.