'The only one who never gets any recognition is the forger. Unless he is unmasked.' - Geert Jan Jansen

In True Copy, BERLIN [Bart Baele & Yves Degryse] puts successful art forger Geert Jan Jansen centre stage, a man whose work and life is a con- stant balancing act on the tightrope between fiction and reality. For more than twenty years, Jansen has managed to fool the art world, so convin- cingly that Picasso and Appel themselves unwittingly provided certificates of authenticity for his creations. The story of one man who tries to hold his own inside a web of lies – or variations on the truth.

'In ‘True Copy’, BERLIN makes magnificent use of the reality of Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen.' ***** NRC

PREMIERE: 15 november 2018, deSingel, Antwerp [BE] DURATION: 80 minutes CONCEPT & DIRECTION: BERLIN [Bart Baele & Yves Degryse] WITH: Geert Jan Jansen ASSISTANT GEERT JAN JANSEN: Luk Sponselee VIDEO: BERLIN, Geert De Vleesschauwer, Jessica Ridderhof & Dirk Bosmans VIDEO EDIITING: BERLIN, Geert De Vleesschauwer & Fien Leysen SET DESIGN: Manu Siebens, Ina Peeters & BERLIN MUSICAL COMPOSITION & MIXING: Peter Van Laerhoven LIVE MIXING: Arnold Bastiaanse of Hans De Prins PIANO: Govaart Haché CELLO: Katelijn Van Kerckhoven SOUND RECORDINGS: Bas De Caluwé & Maarten Moesen LIGHTING DESIGN: Barbara De Wit TECHNICAL COORDINATION: Manu Siebens  & Geert De Vleesschauwer TECHNICHAL ASSISTENTANCE: Rex Tee PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Celeste Driesen & Jessica Ridderhof TRAILERS & TEASERS: Fien Leysen & BERLIN PRODUCTION: BERLIN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Kurt Lannoye ADMINISTRATION: Jane Seynaeve DISTRIBUTION: Eveline Martens COMMUNICATIONS: Sam Loncke COPRODUCTION: deSingel [Antwerp, BE], le CENTQUATRE [Paris, FR], Het Zuidelijk Toneel [Tilburg, NL], Brighton Festival [UK], C-TAKT [Limburg, BE], Theaterfestival Boulevard [Den Bosch, NL], PACT Zollverein [Essen, DE] WITH SUPPORT OF: the Flemish Government, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government (Podiumfonds) THANKS TO: Saskia Verreycken, Diana Boro, Geert Jan Jansen for his help in preparations, rehearsals and performances. BERLIN is creative associate in deSingel [Antwerp, BE] and artiste associé at le CENTQUATRE [Paris, FR]

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Yves Degryse on TRUE COPY, Pompidou (Klara, 12/11/2018, in NL)

BERLIN is an Antwerp based company, 'occupying a coolly compelling hinterland between theatre and film, fiction and fact' [thestage.co.uk]