Van den Vos is a large scale, multimedia artistic project inspired by the epic animal poem Van Den Vos Reynaerde. In this 13th century fable, cunning Reynard the Fox plays tricks on all the animals of the animal kingdom, including King Nobel. Completely unscrupulous but with the full sympathy of the listener, Reynard does exactly as he pleases. With this project, FC Bergman wants to explore what it is that makes ‘immorality’ attractive. Van den vos will consist of a theatre part, a musical part, a film part and a volunteers’ project. All these aspects will come together in a music theatre production with a local touch in each venue, and in a publication. To this aim, a substantial crew will invest in the project: the young singer/composer Liesa Van der Aa, assisted by the up-and-coming German ensemble Kaleidoskop, will compose the music for the piece. Josse De Pauw, one of Belgium’s most respected writers and actors, will provide the libretto. FC Bergman’s six core members (Stef Aerts, Joé Agemans, Bart Hollanders, Matteo Simoni, Thomas Verstraeten and Marie Vinck) will design and direct this project and also appear as performers. They are joined on stage by the vocal artist Gregory Frateur and the actors Viviane De Muynck and Dirk Roofthooft. Van der Aa’s score will be performed by the musicians of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, currently in residence at the Radialsystem V in Berlin. Van den vos will have its première in the Bourlaschouwburg in Antwerp in December 2013 in a coproduction with Transparant and Kaleidoskop. It will then tour in various European cities, with each city providing 20 amateur actors who will be trained in a week’s workshop on the spot by the FC Bergman crew. The support of these local amateur crews is vital for the project and will be an excellent platform of exchange both on artistic matters (acting, staging…) and on more philosophical matters (societal structures, different functioning of parliaments in the various countries).