Jorine van Beek

De Goude Draak

Director: Domien van der Meiren
Theatre Company: De Queeste
Premiere: April 5th 2012

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© Ellen Haesevoets
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© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets
© Ellen Haesevoets

In the handbag of a blonde womand, who is in her thirties, in the evening on the stairs home.

A lipstick, a house key, make-up, an aspirin, tampons, a ballpoint pen. A phone. A small address book. Handkerchiefs. Old cinema tickets, Japanese matches, cigarettes. A receipt for a coat. Cheap sunglasses from Chile. Wrapped in a red napkin, the incisor of a man, completely rotten.

 A rented house in a European city. On the ground floor the frying pans of the Asian takeaway The Golden Dragon are hissing. A young Chinese has an increadible toothache. He's in the country illegally, so he has to pull his own rotten tooth with a plumber's rod, with consequences ...

While the tooth flies through the air, an old man with an unfulfilled desire stands on his balcony, a future father doesn't want a child at all, a woman leaves her husband for good, a supermarket owner has other earnings in a dark backroom, and a hungry cricket does everything the ant desires.

Then a jet-lagged stewardess orders a number 6: Thai soup (spicy). At the bottom she finds a tooth.

In The Golden Dragon five actors embody over twenty different roles. With a surprising narrative form of short, quickly edited episodes full of humour, poetry and emotion, they tell about the madness of our globalised world. About people with their desires, shortcomings, cruelties and dreams. The Golden Dragon is an imaginative trip with sharp edges.