Pieter De Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck — Book Burning

Concept: Pieter De Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck
Image: Hans Op de Beeck
Text & play: Pieter De Buysser
Lightdesign & technician: Herman Sorgeloos
Dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven (Kaaitheater)
English Language Coaching: Miles O'Shea
English Translation: Jodie Hruby, Miles O'Shea & Pieter De Buysser
Production: Margarita Production
Coproduction KunstenfestivaldesArts, Kaaitheater, Festival Baltoscandal (Rakvere) (E), Belluard Bollwerk International (CH), Teater Avant Garden (N), Bit Teatergarasjen (N), Brut Wien (A)
Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
With the support of Koninklijke Bibliotheek België, Göteborgs Dance & Teater Festival, The Flemish Government

PIETER DE BUYSSER
Pieter de Buysser was born in 1972 in Chapels, close to Antwerp. He began writing at a young age and studied philosophy in Antwerp (UFSIA) and Paris. In September 2012 his first novel De Keisnijders (Cutting the Stone) was published by De Geus.
He was nominated for the Taalunie Playwriting Prize and the Flemish Culture Prize for Performing Arts. De Buysser has received the Émile Zola Prize, the Dwarse Denker Trophy and the Kleine Marie Hartman Pen. His texts are published and/or performed in English, Dutch, French, Polish and Italian.
Whether De Buysser is writing, philosophizing or making a film, he creates space. He is a conduit, a gap, an interval. In each of his mediums –film, prose, drama, essay, political talks and actions  – De Buysser paves new ground. ... he makes way.