{"id":45,"date":"2007-04-12T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/original-works-12-19-april\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T17:42:44","slug":"original-works-12-19-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/original-works-12-19-april\/","title":{"rendered":"ITG: Max Dix, Zero to Six (12-19 April 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Five Monologues<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The evening begins with a series of five newly written monologues dealing with the themes of love, parents, pets, death, writing conferences and bad kisses.\u00a0 Alternatively melancholic, humorous, compassionate and graphic, they are unsentimental confrontations with the passing of life.<\/p>\n<h1>Max Dix, Zero to Six <\/h1>\n<p>The second part of the evening is a new one-act play which will also be the ITG\u2019s FEATS 2008 entry at Stockholm in May, \u201cMax Dix, Zero to Six\u201d (previously known under the working title \u201cBefore, before, and then, and then\u201d).\u00a0 The play follows a boy from the moment of his birth to age six years.\u00a0 Since the play is about a family, it deals with mystifying terror, confusion, hopes, dreams, domestic violence, jokes, big and little brothers, while swerving from the hilarious to the tragic.\u00a0 The story is framed by Max, who struggles to become who he thinks he should be, while the adult world tries to shape him into something else.\u00a0 An urge toward transcendence infuses the production. \u00a0Performers include two newcomers to the Brussels theatre scene, but not to theatre, Hilary Barry and Mehran Khalili, and three well-regarded Brussels performers, Roisin Dore, Isabel Walsh and Eduardo Aladro-Vico. <\/p>\n<h1>Writer\/Director<\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\">This is the eighth or ninth production written by Vincent Eaton to receive its premiere in Brussels.\u00a0 His last production, \u201cBOOM\u201d, represented the ITG at FEATS 2007, and took home a production prize.\u00a0 He is a writer, video director and performer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><em><span>Tickets are \u20ac12 (\u20ac10 on preview nights). For further details on the play and to book your tickets, visit <\/span><span><a href=\"www.irishtheatregroup.com\" title=\"http:\/\/www.irishtheatregroup.com\"><span style=\"color: black\">www.irishtheatregroup.com<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">The Irish Theatre Group presents<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-size: 16px\" color=\"#99cc00\"><strong>Max Dix, Zero to Six<\/strong><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">by Vicent Eaton<br \/>Warehouse Studio Theatre, Schaerbeek, 12-19 April 2008<br \/>(Previews 10-11 April 2008)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/maxdixphoto2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" align=\"Not Set\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,45,29,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2007-2008","category-groups","category-itg","category-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/maxdixphoto2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Lbx2-J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 07:30:55","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}