Sold-out audience for Roman walking-route theatre

“We are still floating a little. Three weeks ago we had sold 300 tickets, now with 1,300 visitors we were more than sold out. It is fantastic.”
Marc Hermans — together with Marc Charlier and Roger Lataster the creative team of the “archaeo-festival Sempervivetum” in Bocholtz — can look back on a remarkable success.
“To present local history with solid information and entertainment, with actors on location, was a European first. That is only possible thanks to the actors and actresses — they are top-class. You also noticed that they really felt connected to the theme. Not standing on a stage but in nature, working with the text and responding to the audience was new for them as well. They considered it a real ‘treat’,” says Marc Hermans.

The entire festival team consisted of 65 staff members, including 25 actors and actresses from nine different theatre associations in the region. Thanks to the success of the first edition, the creative team behind the archaeo-festival is considering another edition in 2024: “We had hoped beforehand to do this every four years. But now we dare to think of every two years.”