Jan Fabre and Antony Rizzi share more than twenty years of close collaboration. Drugs kept me alive, which first premiered at Mousonturm in March 2013, is a piece tailor-made by Fabre for the born performer Rizzi: a monolog for a survivor. Quick-wittedly balancing over  the yawning abyss. A man, who has lived life to a full, always one step ahead of the scythe of death. His break-neck speed is his secret weapon, his sense of humour a strong drug and his accomplices have illustrious names such as ecstasy, ketamine, GBH, poppers, speed, cocaine, or 2C-B, 2C-1, 2C-7. But what truly keeps him alive is his desire for intensity and ecstasy.

Text, Direction, Scenery: Jan Fabre * with: Antony Rizzi * Dramaturgy: Miet Martens * Original music: Dimitri Brusselmans * Costumes: Andrea Kränzlin * Production: Troubleyn/Jan Fabre in coproduction with Maribor 2012 - European Capital of Culture * Technical coordination: Geert Van der Auwera * Technician: Tim Thielemans * Production & Tour manager: Ilka De Wilde, Katrien Bruyneel