Diarrhea is My Favorite Color: Selection Theatre Festival
“The stage and the auditorium are increasingly merging into each other. The auditorium lights remain or are turned on unexpectedly. More and more, the audience is part of the artistic plan, making every performance a unique experience. The performance is who we are. One of the consequences is that trauma becomes lighter on stage: because it is fundamentally shared and thus also in part healed collectively” (from the jury report).
Between 1 May 2023 and 25 April 2024, the professional jury of the Belgian TheaterFestival searched the theatre landscape for the most interesting, socially relevant and innovative new pieces. Of the 175 performances that premiered last season, they chose 16 that fascinated them artistically, including Diarrhea Is My Favorite Color. And we are very proud of that!
From the jury report about Diarrhea Is My Favorite Color:
“You don’t often see a performance that has so much impact. It plays on so many layers, certainly more than the average youth performance of last season. At the same time dazzling, moving and grim: diarrhea has never tasted so good.”
Read the entire jury statement in Dutch
You can experience Diarrhea Is My Favorite Color in De Studio Antwerp on Wednesday 11 September at 19:00.
The Theatre Festival takes place from 5 – 15 September 2024.
JURY SELECTION 2024
The professional jury 2024 consists of:
Charlotte De Somviele, Emilie Kabongo, Audrey Leboutte, Liv Laveyne, Dahlia Pessemiers-Benamar, Filip Tielens, Wouter Hillaert and Wim Van Parijs
Elektra Unbound
Luanda Casella & NTGent
The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella
Carolina Bianchi / Cara de Cavalo & Metro Gestão Cultural / KVS
Permit, oh permit my soul to rebel
Aline Breucker & Quintijn Ketels / Side-Show
Foreshadow
Alexander Vantournhout / not standing
Da Capo
Circus Ronaldo
Gruis / aan de twijfel
Werktoneel & NTGent
Opening Night
De HOE
Ensor est un fou / Ensor is zot
Dries Vanhegen & Serge Feys
Zusje!
Johnny Mus / Peter De Graef
Josse Jnr.
LOD & ROBIN / Ahilan Ratnamohan
Diarree is mijn lievelingskleur
Theater Artemis & Studio Julian Hetzel
Desire
Louis Janssens
Ravensbrück
Lucinda Ra / Stefanie Claes
Serdi
Lara Staal & NTGent
Stereo Denta Plastique
Theater Antigone
Up Your Ass
Lieselot Siddiki & Nona Demey Gallagher
