Jan Fabre may be direct, but he's not didactic. In , which played last weekend at On the Boards, he avoids becoming just another European leftist railing against capitalism and instead delivers a nearly two-hour exploration of the fear and loathing that underlies Western liberal capitalist society. Starting with proposition that consumerism is a form of autoeroticism--that it's masturbation, basically--his theatre troupe Troubleyn delves deep into the anxiety and self-loathing of people who consume to self-realize. more ›

Troubleyn, the theatre/performance company Belgian artist Jan Fabre founded 1986 to produce his idiosyncratic stage pieces, and this week, Troubleyn makes a rare U.S. (and Seattle debut) at On the Boards with unforgettable in terms of its effects and staging. more ›