Eat Me
A baroque banquet in which hunger devours itself
- Available soon €28.00
- 20:00
- Club Wintercircus
When is too much enough? Eat Me begins there. A table is set. Glasses fill. The meal never quite arrives. Someone cooks. Someone serves. Appetite keeps going. Another bite. Another sip.
Director Aïda Gabriëls approaches opera and music theatre as an open space where music, performers and spectators continuously renegotiate their roles. Sound is not background but architecture. In Eat Me, it organises the room: who serves, who consumes, who continues long after satisfaction should have set in.
Composer Jonathan Bonny builds the score like a banquet that refuses to end. Courtly splendour from Jean-Baptiste Lully collides with the kinetic drive of Antonio Vivaldi, before dissolving into electronics and fragments of pop mythology. Yes, Britney Spears is part of the menu. Ornament multiplies. Bass lines insist. Pleasure becomes rhythm. Performed live by B’Rock Orchestra and singers moving between guest, host and accomplice, the music circulates through the space rather than staying in place.
© Lucinde Wahlen
The libretto by Dominique De Groen moves between intimacy and critique. In the wake of her novel Corpus Britney, her language circles bodies, appetite and the strange economies of desire, where seduction and unease remain closely aligned.
The environment is shaped by :mentalKLINIK, known for installations that probe luxury and consumption. For Eat Me, they create a glossy arena: a table that is also sculpture, a surface where feasting, watching and listening collapse into a single gesture.
Somewhere between elegance and excess, the question returns: is too much ever enough?
Credits
Blandine Coulon, Romain Dayez, Linde Carrijn, Casper Clausen, Timo Tembuyser en B'Rock, creation and performance
Jonathan Bonny, composition and arrangements
Dominique De Groen, libretto
Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, Lena Meyskens en Rudi Laermans, dramaturgy
:mentalKLINIK, scenography
Matteo Sedda, choreography and mouvement
Maarten Van Mulken, costumes
Aïda Gabriëls, concept, light design and direction
oester, B’Rock, B-Classic, Muziektheater Transparant, PerPodium en Concertgebouw Brugge, production
Practical information
Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
Address: Platteberg 24, 9000 Ghent
Ticket price
28 euro
UiTPAS reduced price Tickets Gent
Timing
19:15 Doors open
20:00 Concert starts
21:30 Expected end
There is no intermission.
There are toilets available at the venue, including accessible facilities.
A cloakroom is also available.
Accessibility
The concert venue is wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair-accessible routes to the arena are available via the main entrance (Lammerstraat 13) and the eastern entrance (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 11).
Assistance dogs are welcome. If desired, staff members are available to guide you to your seat. Do you have specific needs or require additional facilities? Please contact us via toegankelijkheid@festival.be or +32 9 243 94 94.
You can find more information about the accessibility of the venue on this page.
Getting there
Bicycle parking is available at De Krook.
The Wintercircus is located right next to Gent Zuid, a major bus and tram hub.
Travel by train: book your Bravo! Ticket at a discounted rate via the NMBS.
More information about getting to the venue can be found here.
Plan your visit
More useful tips for planning your visit to Flanders Festival Ghent can be found here.