WALPURGIS recycled a story about a boy who wants to become rich and famous and who, like the archetypal characters in the plays Faust by Goethe and Peer Gynt By Ibsen, the opera The Rake's Progress By Stravinsky and even the fairy tale Pinocchio of Collodi, in an environment unknown and dangerous to him, threatens to lose everything that makes him human: his mind, love, his life.
In this sampled story, singers Judith Vindevogel and Gerrie de Vries and actor Pieter Embrechts were assisted by a musical trio (percussion, double bass and harpsichord/keyboard), which draws its inspiration from classical scores, jazz and contemporary fusion.
Review
Fairy tale existence becomes nightmare
'Max T. by Walpurgis ends with a distinct moral lesson. Actor and singer Pieter Embrechts, aka Max T., admits his lapses and warns against overly charming promises. It is not the young flail's tragic downfall that impresses in this musical theatre performance, but its comic light-heartedness. (...) Together with three all-round musicians, the sound score zaps from Stravinsky over Rossini to Coldplay - In my place, drollly accompanied by four recorders. (...) The relationship between Max T. and Nick Schaduw (an icy Dimitri Duquennoy) carries the whole performance. Pieter Embrechts plays a credible adolescent with whom the young audience (aged 12 and above) can easily identify.'
Véronique Rubens, De Standaard
