Symphony for One Hundred Citizens and a Traffic Light is a large scale symphony of everyday urban sounds combined with a video installation. One hundred residents from every corner of Antwerp each perform their own ‘instrument’. On stage you will not find violins, woodwinds and percussion, but cars with growling engines, a sunny terrace with clinking glasses, barking dogs, a suitcase rolling over cobblestones, a singing street guitarist, a road worker with a jackhammer, a clock striking twelve, whistling birds … Together, all these instruments form a sculptural collage of the city on the stage of the Blauwe Zaal in Antwerp.
The Antwerp based theatre maker, actor and visual artist Thomas Verstraeten is a member of the theatre collective FC Bergman, although he has already created remarkable happenings at DE SINGEL with his solo work. After his much discussed Seefhoek Series, in which he blurred the boundaries between the city and the theatre, he is now creating a new metropolitan project together with the composer Heleen Van Haegenborgh. This time, he turns his focus not to a single neighbourhood but to the entire city.
