Mechelen Abattoir Fermé blows out 20 candles, and celebrates that birthday in style. “The Expo Show in the cultural center shows bezoekersde special world of the Mechelen theatre company. Artistic director and artist in residence, Stef Lernous and his team to do the book, ” The ABC’s of Abattoir Fermé’ on top of it. “We kiss regularly ‘our pollekes’ that we can and should do”.
“I started with Abattoir Fermé, because I in the existing theateraanbod not always found what I was looking for. What is created is often too clean, too tight, too perfect. I enjoy just the opposite: it wonderfully theatrical, the aesthetic of the dingy. I am also my parents are grateful. They were day in and day out, busy with their volkscafé, and there you saw the real world in place of the appearances.”
