Needcompany

Travel back in time to ponder the notion of identity in today’s multicultural Europe.

Acclaimed international performance group Needcompany present the UK premiere of The Blind Poet, a story built from the performers’ family trees and based on their various nationalities, cultures and languages.

It is a show about women who throw stones and end up being burned at the stake, and about a crusader in armour that is too small. The show is inspired by poetry that describes a time in which women held positions of power and atheism was commonplace.

History is written by the victors – by men. How much has the history we know actually been determined by lies, chance encounters and events along the way?

Directed by Jan Lauwers.