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Braakland/ZheBilding (BZB) explicitly positions itself as a company of makers: a group of theatre makers who follow a collective path that departs from the spectator's aural imagination.Braakland/ZheBilding makes theatre for the ear, choosing the organic combination of spoken text and contemporary alternative music, cross-over between rock, jazz, folk, punk, minimal music and electronics. The company plays with the quality of the voice and with narrative points of view to make literary texts sensual, rhythmical, musical and theatrical. Speaking frontally, performing, addressing the public directly, Braakland/ZheBilding's theatre is far from being lyrical drama. The company is particularly interested in the areas that lie between speaking and singing.

BZB always departs from socially relevant subject matter. The company fully opts for creation; each project starts from scratch. Music is composed, and text is written. The group wants to deal with the present, or at least things that are still going on, or reverberating. Braakland has good reasons why it chooses the 20th and 21st centuries as its biotope.

Braakland/ZheBilding's artistic management is headed by author-directors Stijn Devillé and Adriaan Van Aken, and dramatist Els Theunis. The artistic team includes musicians Geert Waegeman, Rudy Trouvé, Gerrit Valckenaers, Youri Van Uffelen and Ephraïm Cielen, and actors Sara Vertongen, Kris Cuppens, Dirk Buyse, Pieter Genard and Janne Desmet.