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‘It’s a bit like Jiskefet meets Lynch meets Tik Tak meets Milo Rau meets Andy Kaufman.’

With the De Kortvoorstelling exhibition, actors and friends Joeri Happel & Lucas van der Vegt pay tribute to the confusing nature of life. Because, according to them, life is not a coherent story, but an inextricable tangle of strange details.

During this colourful evening, a vibrant revue of short performances, short stories and fleeting encounters – which will unfold in the Nieuwe Theatertempel of the Nieuwe Plan, a forensic sandpit, a life-size puppet theatre – you will follow their quest on the stage of the Great Themes of Life.

‘But I am your friend, Yuri.’

A selection of what you can expect: in one of the scenes, two old friends, athletic Swedes, reminisce about days long gone; in other acts, Happel & Van der Vegt explore the themes of moralism, beauty, philanthropy, flowers, and the intense focus and competitive nature of contemporary sports culture. The performers, clad in morphsuits, are almost invisible as they conjure up curtains of flowers, and the imaginary friend Yari visits the people at the Verenwinkel. In the act Het Fiasco (The Fiasco), literally everything you can imagine goes wrong.

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Foto’s: Femke Appeltans