tg STAN

My Dinner with André

Archive 2005
Theatre

From Wallace Shawn and André Gregory
Stage adaptation from Louis Malle movie (1981)
adapted by Damiaan De Schrijver and Peter Van den Eede
Translation, Martine Bom
Costumes, Inge Büscher
Coproduction tg STAN & de Koe
Coproducers for the French version Théâtre de la Bastille,
Théâtre Garonne / Toulouse and Festival d’Automne à Paris

The ‘STAN’ in the title of this Flemish theatre group is an acronym for ‘Stop Thinking About Names’. Yet the name of this play, a stage adaptation of Louis Malle’s 1981 cult movie, will be familiar to many theatregoers. The focus remains the philosophical give-and-take between two old buddies engrossed in conversation over a four-course meal. And once again, the audience is a silent guest at the table.