“The great acting is aided by working with a writer.”
“It is guaranteed that you walk out with a gram more happiness that night.”
De Morgen
“Beautiful timid and full of dreamy poetry interpret Jansen and Inhibitors fulfilling their dreams . It’s whether they travel through a timeless space , forever linked.”
NRC Handelsblad
Rail Gourmet is the name of a packaging company under the Brussel-Midi (Brussels South) station, where the meals are wrapped up for the Thalys to Paris and the Eurostar to London. The Wunderbaum actors have visited the company and have been introduced to the people – coming from more than 60 different countries – who pack the food and wrap up the cutlery. Thereupon they took the lift upstairs, to the platforms, where businessmen, Euro MPs and tourists were waiting for their high-speed train. Personnel and travellers form two groups of people who are characteristic for the new Europe: a metropolitan melting pot of local and immigrant labourers, and a group of pan-European, mobile big earners.
With Rail Gourmet Wunderbaum relates a fresco of stories about characters who find themselves at this remarkable junction. It’s a multilingual performance, close to a railroad. Jens Bouttery (Camp Jesus) performs live music. A metropolitan triptych, on location in several cities in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Flemish author Annelies Verbeke has created special characters, which she has brought together in a universe full of parallel worlds. A railway station in Brussels becomes a metaphor for all those worlds in which people pass each other by without any real contact. We show characters who nevertheless have relationships in this environment and who try to save them, or who still manage to get in touch with each other for a moment. It provides crepitating sparks. Moments of high tension as these characters are all very emotionally charged, and for a moment find a way out.
By and with
- Maartje Remmers
- Wine Dierickx
- Matijs Jansen
- Walter Bart
Text
- Annelies Verbeke
Dramaturgy
- Jeroen Versteele
(Live) music
- Jens Bouttery
Design
- Maarten Van Otterdijk
Filmdirector
- Berend Boorsma
- Roel Boorsma
- Eric Halberstadt
Production coordinator
- Carry Hendriks
Technician
- Peter Nys (film)
Production Film
- Carry Hendriks
- Eva van den Hove
Set design
- Vorm en Decor (film)
Production manager
- Wunderbaum
coproduction
- Rotterdamse Schouwburg
in cooperation with
- KVS
- Brussel
Special thanks to
- Rail Gourmet
- het Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
- Kim Clarke
- Bas Heijne
- Maria Heiden
- Dick Molenaar
- Hein van Raak
- Rail Gourmet Belgium
- Marleen Scholten
- Koen Tachelet
- Henk Zoeteman
Photography
- Christoph Ketels (scenes)
- Thomas Dhanens (film)
- Maarten van Otterdijk
Past dates
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September 2010
01
Theater Festival
Antwerpen (BE) -
August 2010
31
Theater Festival
Antwerpen (BE) -
May 2010
27
Theater de Veste
Delft (NL) -
May 2010
26
Theater de Veste
Delft (NL) -
April 2010
03
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
April 2010
02
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
April 2010
01
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
March 2010
31
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
March 2010
30
Frascati
Amsterdam (NL) -
March 2010
27
Monty
Antwerpen (BE) -
March 2010
26
Monty
Antwerpen (BE) -
March 2010
25
Monty
Antwerpen (BE) -
March 2010
24
Monty
Antwerpen (BE) -
March 2010
13
KVS
Brussel (BE) -
March 2010
12
KVS
Brussel (BE) -
March 2010
11
KVS
Brussel (BE) -
March 2010
10
KVS
Brussel (BE) -
March 2010
02
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
28
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
26
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
25
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
20
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
19
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
18
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL) -
February 2010
17
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
Rotterdam (NL)
“Rail Gourmet is a triptych, whose individual parts as trains are coupled together, and finally once again become loose. Ingeniously written as a mosaic, and beautifully played .”
De Volkskrant
Current projects
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John & Gena -
Die Hundekot-Attacke -
WUNDERBAUM plays LIVE (online it's a mess)