Intro

Achilleus

Wim Henderickx

From 29/10/2003 in Ghent

• Musical direction: Michel Tilkin
• Director: Jacob Schokking
• Achilleus/ Trojaan 1: Quirijn de Lang
• Odysseus/ Patroklos/ Trojaan 2: Kor-Jan Dusseljee
• Agamemnon/ Hektor/ Priamos: Huub Claessens
• Menelaos/ Ares/ Aias: Wilfried Van den Brande

Wim Henderickx ventures into the Iliad’s theatre of war. Achilleus is sulking and refuses to take part in the battles. Not even Odysseus or Aias can talk him into it. But when his bosom friend Patroklos, wearing Achilleus’ armour, is killed by Hektor, Achilleus rushes back into the fray seeking revenge. He kills Hektor... Imme Dros retells the epic, up to the moment when the Greeks make as if to sail away from the Trojan coast and leave a wooden horse behind. Peace is only an overture to the rest of the war. A few years after Michael Tippert’s "King Priam", on the same theme, was staged at the Flemish Opera, Imme Dros and Wim Henderickx now teach a young audience that there are never any winners in war, only losers

Team

• Musical direction
  Michel Tilkin
• Director
  Jacob Schokking
• Set design
  Jacob Schokking
• Costumes
  Jacob Schokking
• Lightning
  Peter Plesner
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• Achilleus/ Trojaan 1
  Quirijn de Lang
• Odysseus/ Patroklos/ Trojaan 2
  Kor-Jan Dusseljee
• Agamemnon/ Hektor/ Priamos
  Huub Claessens
• Menelaos/ Ares/ Aias
  Wilfried Van den Brande
• Afrodite/ Briseïs
  Johannette Zomer
• Helena
  Corinne Romijn
• Niemand
  Jonathan De Ceuster