NEWS

A ROOM OF HIS OWN

THEATRE SCORE

Bart & Tania are currently working on the theatre score for A ROOM OF HIS OWN, directed by Nona Demey Gallagher. 

The premiere is set for April 23rd 2026, at De Singel Antwerp. 

JEANNE DARK AT THEATER BASEL

THEATRE SCORE

Bart & Tania have composed the theatre soundtrack for ‘JEANNE DARK'’ the story of the maid of Orleans , in a direction by Lies Pauwels (Sontag) for Theater Basel, Switzerland. 

 The premiere is set for November 13 2025 at Theater Basel. Scenography, art direction and costumes by Johanna Trudzinski. 

UP YOUR ASS AT EDINGHBURGH FRINGE 2025

THEATRE SCORE

Valerie Solanas’ once-suppressed play Up Your Ass returns to the stage in a bold new production directed by Nona Demey Gallagher and Lieselot Siddiki. After receiving strong reviews across the board, we're pleased to announce that the show will be part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025.

The original music, composed by Bart Demey and Tania Gallagher (aka Nid & Sancy), is performed live by Jailbait.

Up Your Ass runs daily from August 12 to August 24, 2025 at the Main Hall, Zoo Southside.

Tickets : https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/up-your-ass

ARCADIA (SEASON 2)

TV SERIES ORIGINAL SCORE

Bart & Tania have started composing the season 2 soundtrack for the dystopian TV series Arcadia, to be aired in 2025.

Arcadia is a coproduction between VRT (Belgium), KRO (Netherlands) and ARD (germany) and features an all original score. 

The new season is directed by Joel Vanhoebroeck.

More news on exact airing dates to follow. 

STEPPENWOLF AT THEATER BASEL

NEW THEATRE SCORE ( Premiere June 1st 2024)

Bart Demey & Tania Gallagher are set to compose the theatre soundtrack for ‘Steppenwolf’ by Herman Hesse, in a direction by Lies Pauwels (Sontag) for Theater Basel, Switzerland. 

Hesse started writing ‘Steppenwolf’, which he quoted later in life as being ‘violently misunderstood’ in room 401 of the Krafft hotel in Basel. He finished the book in Zurich. The premiere is set for June 1st 2024 at Theater Basel. Scenography, art direction and costumes by Johanna Trudzinski. 

https://www.theater-basel.ch/de/steppenwolf

https://www.liespauwels.com/

WHITE FLAG AT OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN

NEW thEAtRE SCORE (APRIL 2024)

New co production between Theater Neumarkt (Zurich) and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen comes to Ghent, Belgium on April 16th,17th and 18th, 2024. 

Following 'Learning How To Walk' (NTGent 2016) and 'White People's Problems' (Schauspielhaus Bochum),  Bart Demey and Tania Gallagher collaborate with director Benny Claessens for the third time.

Press Release from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen :

All will be well, a new beginning has come!’, goddesses in ancient myths always seem to sing when the end of a crisis is in sight, drying the tears of mankind. Director Benny Claessens, together with three contemporary goddesses and a queer chorus, hoists the white flag and leads us to a place of sensual and vulnerable pleasure. A place where we can surrender and do not always have to be strong. Where we dare to rebel against the existing order and try to look at traditional, masculine values such as strength, genius and heroism in a new way.

In the twilight of dawn, Benny’s goddesses (Challenge Gumbodete, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Teresa Vittucci) sing of surrender as the last form of resistance. White Flag is a hybrid performance with live film, music, theatre… and lots of pink plush. The result: an entertaining and visually stunning performance. To hell with geniuses and heroes. A new beginning lies ahead.

 

UP YOUR ASS

NEW THEATRE SCORE (Premiere 08,09,10 November 2023) NEW DATES IN 2024!

Why I shot Andy Warhol and other chit-chat
Russel: “The two-sex system must be right, because it has been there for ages” 
Bongi: “So has disease”

 

Nona Demey Gallagher & Lieselot Siddiki adapt Up Your Ass, Valerie Solanas' infamous 1965 comedy. The text has had a controversial status in the feminist (queer) community for years, but is now seeing the European theatre light for the first time.

New York, the Sixties. Main character Bongi Perez – a substitute for Solanas herself – is a crude hustler and sex worker. She hangs out on the streets with quite a few eccentric characters, where she fills her days with vulgar discourses, clapping and wooing female passers-by. When she meets Ginger and Russel – a daddy's girl and a male narcissist – a chain of absurd (anti-)intellectual discussions about the state of society immediately ensues. Bongi, Ginger and Russel shamelessly spit their beliefs at each other – resulting in unthinkable and grotesque situations.

Valerie Solanas is best known today for her attack on Andy Warhol, but her literary legacy includes important radical-feminist works, such as SCUM Manifesto and Up Your Ass. After Andy Warhol refused to produce Up Your Ass, Solanas tried to shoot him. Nona and Lieselot got in close contact with Solanas' last living relative and were the first and only ones to get permission to perform Up Your Ass. 

 

Music composed by Tania Gallagher and Bart Demey. Performed by JAILBAIT, consisting of Nona Demey Gallagher and Lieselot Siddiki.

First premiere run takes place at CAMPO Gent on 8,9,10 November 2023.

 

 

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