Enclosed Garden

Next year, Ferenc Balcaen will present a major new theatre production at NTGent. In this work, he explores melancholy as both an aesthetic and existential experience: reflecting on loss, memory, change, and the longing to hold on to what inevitably slips away. In preparation, Balcaen has been experimenting with installations and small-scale performances, two of which he will share with an audience during Playground.

At STUK, you can visit Enclosed Garden, an installation that serves as a preliminary design for the scenography. It is open throughout the festival and free to enter, like an exhibition. About Enclosed Garden Ferenc Balcaen states: A garden within walls. Silent, sacred, enclosed. Blooming behind monastery walls, among relics and embroidery. A place of prayer, beauty and meaning. A hortus conclusus.