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Theatre collective from Ghent who makes performances with everyone who feels like playing something or someone, mostly outside in the city

 

Our main message is that theatre is a temporary demarcation where people meet outside their familiar conventions. Our goal is to open up a space in which strangers can enter into dialogue and where the pleasure of that encounter takes center stage without needing to be useful, efficient or mandatory. 

And we try something radical as an independent practice without subsidy.

A sacred space for culture lovers

We live in the city

Not in nature

We choose this (at least)

We choose not to retreat into nature

Out of a need not to view "retreating" as the only option left

We try to rebuild something

 

 

City life

A secular life

Where you respect the diversity

That's why it is preferable to a religious society

We are convinced that religion should not influence the way a city is built

We do not pit one thing against another 

Because when you say no, there is no room left

Then you only have closure

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We are witnessing a rapid exodus from churches, de-baptisms, and monasteries for sale 

On a larger scale, we are witnessing the collapse of the structural system of meaning 

On an existential level, an increase in depression, anxiety, and psychoses 

Due to a total exodus

A void 

Where every person is now expected to fill this in for themselves 

What are you doing here?

Take your pick! 

But you have to figure it out for yourself 

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And if you can’t do that on your own today, then you turn to social services 

And if you can afford it 

And if you dare to

And if you know the way 

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Or you stick with the Scouts 

Or you’re lucky enough to have a close-knit family that gets together on Sunday evenings 

Or a close-knit group of friends who go out to a bar together every Friday 

Or you find joy in a monthly team-building event that HR lets you organize

Or a group trip to Indonesia because traveling alone is just too expensive 

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But what do you do about Tinder depression? 

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Can you just strike up a conversation with someone at a bar? 

Did you make a new friend last month? 

Do you still find new words that can surprise you? 

Do you have a place where time and space take center stage? 

Where connection is the most important thing? 

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Do you still expect someone to give you what you didn’t know you still needed?

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Nothing can change intentionally 

Only organically 

We embrace that organic process 

By simply trying 

We don’t hope, because hoping is the same as doing nothing 

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What is your favorite place? 

 

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