De Onkreukelbare at The Brussels City Theatre

De Onkreukelbare is an accumulation of visual and verbal time bombs which together highlight one of the most significant turning points in Western history: the French Revolution. The director Thomas Bellinck and actor Jeroen Van der Ven took their inspiration from the controversial figure Maximilien de Robespierre, the visionary statesman and self-proclaimed pacifist who helped send thousands of people to the guillotine in the most turbulent days of the revolution. The result is an ingeniously visualised exploration of how rebellions germinate, go off the rails and are commemorated. Jeroen Van der Ven is alone on stage, but it is as if a whole regiment of actors were assisting him – never before has a solo been seen with so many people on the stage.