Biography

Born in 1960 in Antwerp, he studied graphic arts at Antwerp’s Academy of Fine Arts, before he began working at the theatre where he first aimed at  young audiences. He has been the manager of the Toneelhuis in Anvers since 2006. He often worked on adaptations of non theatrical texts: in 1994 Hiroshima mon amour by Duras, in 1999 Anna Karenina by Tolstoï. And from 2002 to 2004, he launched into  a huge project, In Search of Lost Time by Proust. These past few years, in his Triptyque du pouvoir [Triptych of power],  and his new triptych about The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil’s great novel, Guy Cassiers has focused on the complex relationships between arts, politics and power.