Charms

A performance about the absurd children's poems by Daniil Charms

The starting point for Charms are ten poems for children written by Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev (born in 1905), alias Daniil Charms, who suddenly “disapeared” under the Stalinist regime in 1942.
Unfinished ideas with sudden, illogical and sometimes violent mental leaps, absurd black humour and a tension between truth, lie, reality and imagination, are some of the characteristics of Charms’ style.

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production WALPURGIS i.c.w. Kunstencentrum Vooruit
musicPeter Vermeersch
textDaniil Charms
from & withWim Konink, Philippe Thuriot, Tom Wouters, Benjamin Verdonck & Judith Vindevogel
scenographyJim Clayburgh
costumesVeerle Van den Wouwer
illustrations CDGerda Dendooven
typography CDGert Dooreman

production

WALPURGIS i.c.w. Kunstencentrum Vooruit

music

Peter Vermeersch

text

Daniil Charms

from & with

Wim Konink, Philippe Thuriot, Tom Wouters, Benjamin Verdonck & Judith Vindevogel

scenography

Jim Clayburgh

costumes

Veerle Van den Wouwer

illustrations CD

Gerda Dendooven

typography CD

Gert Dooreman