I am a mistake is a theatre text written by Jan Fabre in 1988. It is a manifest that amounts almost to a profession of faith by the artist. The blunt confession 'I am a mistake' is like a mantra that repeats and divides.

MITEM INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, BUDAPEST
Location: Nemzeti Színház | National Theatre Budapest
Attila Kaszás Hall, Budapest, Hungary
Language: Italian spoken | English surtitles 

Discover the Troubleyn/Laboratorium and its art treasures on this unique behind-the-scenes tour.

TROUBLEYN/LABORATORIUM, ANTWERP
Location: start in the foyer @Troubleyn Laboratory
Pastorijstraat 23, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium
Language: Dutch
Tour lasts approximately 120 minutes | Maximum 15 participants. 

A CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF HUNGARY, TROUBLEYN/JAN FABRE
& THE BOZSIK YVETTE COMPANY

"Bodies trying to free themselves from physical limitations and taboos become liquid: they turn into blood, the body's fuel" – Jan Fabre
 

MITEM INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, BUDAPEST
Location: Nemzeti Színház | National Theatre Budapest
Main Stage, Budapest, Hungary
Language: English spoken

AN 8 HOUR PERFORMANCE

The highest peak of Mount Olympus is called Mytikas. A Greek word for Nose. Because the gods live on that mountain, the Nose is the nose of all the gods.

TROUBLEYN/LABORATORIUM, ANTWERP
Location: Troubleyn Laboratorium
Pastorijstraat 23, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium
Language: Multiple languages spoken | English surtitles
*The performance lasts 8 hours and there is no intermission. Audiences are free to walk in and out as they wish.   

Jan Fabre wrote I believe in the legend of love in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, about loving and letting go.

MITEM INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, BUDAPEST
Location: Nemzeti Színház | National Theatre Budapest
Gobbi Hilda Stage, Budapest, Hungary
Language: English spoken

She was and she is, even is inspired by Duchamp’s artwork, The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The Large Glass). Els Deceukelier plays a seductive bride situated in the twilight zone between reality and imagination...
 

The character played by Stella Höttler is lost and confused in this changing world. Therefore, she apologizes herself for everything—for how she looks, for how she behaves, for what she says … She tries to find her way in the world of self-censorship...

The monologue details ’Simona the Stylite’ and her criminal plan to restore the healing and spiritual power of beauty.

For the past four years, iconic Belgian artist Jan Fabre and legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov have worked together on their first collaboration. British artist Phil Griffin joined them as a co-director of the film Not Once. (...)

Jan Fabre created for the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg an intimate version of The Night Writer. Fabre's first repertoire play in Russia is alternately played by two talented actors: Andrej Feskov and Alexander Molochinikov (...)

The prestigious British publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing UK(Methuen Drama) recently launched 8 volumes "The great European stage directors, from Stanislavksi to Fabre"! Volume #8 is about Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre. For sale online (...)