Isabella en Madame Ching

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Club Classique and Troupe Courage join forces in this music theater spectacle in which masks, storytelling and a one-woman-orchestra form the basic ingredients.  Armed with a violin, a bag full of mask and a mess of young players, they travel back in history to other raging times in search of inspiring stories with an imaginary ship.

Katrien takes us to the by wars andThere, in the eye of the storm, we meet Isabella who enchants the audience with her own theater group and masks and thus plays his way out of poverty. Myrthe gets fascinated by Madame Ching, who is in charge of a fleet of 400 ships and 80,000 pirates at the beginning of the 19th century. She is the shock of Chinese waters, defies international world trade and introduces a new pirate code that protects female prisoners. How do Isabella and Madame Ching go straight through the storm and make the impossible possible? Inspired by their hypercreative fighting spirit, we travel past the personal, crazy, brutal, crazy and moving stories of the players themselves to today's storm fighters.  Through the story of the Special Guest we recognize the storm fighter in ourselves.  Their performances combine moving stories with exciting collaborations and unexpected turns. Club Classique can regularly be seen and heard on radio and TV in programs such as Podium Classic.

Troupe Courage, founded by Katrien van Beurden, is a collective of players and musicians from countries such as the Netherlands, Palestine, BurundiThe company brings alloters to a high level, in which the energy of survival is central. With text, masks and live music they create a world of pure imagination in a mix of madness, glorious failure, ingenuity, interaction and improvisation.