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Thanks for Being Here Ontroerend Goed

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Ontroerend Goed's brand new show is an ode to the audience and to the realisation we will never fully understand each other.
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✔ On 19/02 Dutch spoken
✔ On 20/02 English spoken



Thanks for Being Here is an ode to the audience. Because without an audience, there is no theater. That you are reading this text now, perhaps buying a ticket (or have already bought one) and will soon be sitting in anticipation for an hour in a room full of strangers, not knowing what is to come, we find that highly hopeful. And we are going to celebrate that.

On stage: us. In the auditorium: you. We are going to look. At ourselves. But especially at each other, as a group. We switch roles. Maybe you'll see yourself. As part of the audience, or even as a character. Without you, there would be no performance. So thanks for being here.

In a play of video and perspective, in Thanks for Being Here , you'll be caught off guard again and again. But don't worry - you don't have to do anything at all. Because for more than 20 years, Ontroerend Goed has been making interactive theater for people who especially don't like interactive theater. And we'll take your expectations into account. Both before, and after. Promise.

‘AN INGENIOUS PALACE OF MIRRORS (...) THAT OUR COLLECTIVE PRESENCE IS A SOURCE OF CHANGE, THAT IS CERTAIN. A RADICAL HOPEFUL REALISATION’
De Morgen (BE) **** - Evelyne Coussens

Awarded numerous prizes at festivals in Europe, Australia and North America, Ontroerend Goed's work has been performed all over the world since 2007. Remarkably, productions are also given remakes in other languages: there are versions in Russian, French, Mandarin, Cantonese and Kazakh, among others.

The history of the universe in a nutshell, spectators as voters voting out actors, a performance as a palindrome or a wandering in a labyrinth of mirrors and avatars to meet yourself: Ontroerend Goed makes unpredictability its trademark, in form and content. Intense experiences, built in the reality of theatre.

credits

direction

Alexander Devriendt

cast

Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Patricia Kargbo, Leonore Spee

costumes

Fauve Ryckebush

direction assistent

Anne Meffert

technique

Elias Baudouin, Nick De Keyser & Joaquin De Rycke

scenography light

Scott Jun

audiovisual advice

Maxime Lahousse & Vidiots

sound editing

Anne Meffert, Leonore Spee, David Sanders

production manager

Lynn Van den Bergh

production

Ontroerend Goed

coproduction

PerPodium

in collaboration with

NTGent

with support of

De Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Stad Gent, theTax Shelter of the Belgian federal government & uFund
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credits

direction

Alexander Devriendt

cast

Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Patricia Kargbo, Leonore Spee

costumes

Fauve Ryckebush

direction assistent

Anne Meffert

technique

Elias Baudouin, Nick De Keyser & Joaquin De Rycke

scenography light

Scott Jun

audiovisual advice

Maxime Lahousse & Vidiots

sound editing

Anne Meffert, Leonore Spee, David Sanders

production manager

Lynn Van den Bergh

production

Ontroerend Goed

coproduction

PerPodium

in collaboration with

NTGent

with support of

De Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Stad Gent, theTax Shelter of the Belgian federal government & uFund
Until it holds from the inside There's all that future, still With closed eyes, you can see whomever you’d like Beyond madness, tenderness awaits Only humans can fantasise