The Golden Books are a joint project by NTGent and the Berlin publisher Verbrecher Verlag. It
is a series comprising programme articles on theatre aesthetics and politics as well as
background pieces on productions and projects by NTGent. A series on both the theory and the
practice of a 'city theatre of the future'. Lam Gods The Ghent Altarpiece is the second volume
in this series. It is published end of September 2018 for the premiere of Milo Rau's theatre
production Lam Gods to open his first season as artistic director of NTGent. The volume gathers
- in Dutch and English - material original texts as well as background-interviews about Milo
Rau's production a work between theatre and a performative video installation with which he
transposes the most famous painting of Belgium the Ghent Altarpiece of the Van Eyck brothers
from 1432 into the present. Milo Rau was born in Bern in 1977 and works as a director writer
and activist. He is the author of 50 plays films books and actions. His most recent works
published by Verbrecher Verlag are Die Europa Trilogie (2016) Das Kongo Tribunal (2017) Five
Easy Pieces Die 120 Tage von Sodom (2017) and Lenin (2017).
