Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

In De koning van het plagiaat, the protagonist tries to do the opposite: he’s an angel that wants to cut off his wings, to become human, an actor, “a talking monkey”. The angel has had enough of perfection and eternal life. He wants to be fallible and make mistakes. In the on-stage laboratory he plays the surgeon as well as the patient. He fills his new human brain with wisdom stolen from the minds of Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Stein and Victor Frankenstein. The angel turned human crafts a personality with plagiarized genius. But who is he really?

• This is the first of three pieces Jan Fabre wrote for actor Dirk Roofthooft. You can also see De keizer van het verlies and De dienaar van de schoonheid in Vooruit.