Wed 27.08.25 —
Sat 13.12.25
No Yogurt for the Dead
Tiago Rodrigues & ntgent
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Aan de start van de brug
Aan de start van de brug
Aan de start van de brug
14.10.25 — 15.10.25What possesses humankind to continuously try and conquer its own mortality? Together with NTGent, talented collective Werktoneel creates a brand new play to succeed the highly successful Gruis / aan de twijfel.
Describing major social phenomena starting from hyper-personal stories is what Werktoneel does best. Jesse Vandamme, Louise Bergez, Joeri Happel, Lucie Plasschaert and Lucas van der Vegt do it like no other. Whether it is madness and fear (Solipsists), climate and capital (Giants), love and marriage (Scenes), or success and failure (Gruis / aan de twijfel). In Aan de start van de brug [At the Foot of the Bridge], they approach the ultimate human phenomenon: the dormant awareness of our impermanence.
The show is an exploration of how people deal with that awareness, and the inventive - sometimes absurd - ways they come up with to avoid, and even overcome, death. Trying to outsmart their existential fear of death, the characters dive into a tunnel of cryonism, Silicon Valley ideologies and longevity research. The outcome of their perverse experiments is highly uncertain. As guinea pigs, they are at the start of a bridge that might lead nowhere.
"Sublime acting. The new generation has arrived and it is here to stay." That is what Belgian leading newspaper De Standaard wrote about Gruis / aan de twijfel (2023), voted best theatre production of the year. The play, based on the oeuvre of Willem Frederik Hermans, bombarded collective Werktoneel as press and peoples favorite.
Practical info
Duration
1h40
Tickets
15 - 28 euros
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Subtitles
None
Available with Sign Language
Dates
On Tour
This production is also hitting the road. Can’t come at NTGent? Find the full list of tour dates below.
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Program bookletAan de start van de brug
They saw the play and said:
"What makes this show particularly special is how author-director Jesse Vandamme and his four thoroughbred actors manage to erase the boundary between life and death (...) From the raunchy opening monologue to all the unfunny descriptions of dying: in so many insidious ways, Werktoneel questions our relationship to our own finitude"
Read the articleAan de start van de brug belicht de onsterfelijkheid van doodsangst, en het verrukkelijk acteertalent van Louise Bergez, Joeri Happel, Lucas van der Vegt en Lucie Plasschaert (...) Een frisse, vertederende, visueel aantrekkelijke vertelling
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Credits
On Tour
Dates
On Tour
This production is also hitting the road. Can’t come at NTGent? Find the full list of tour dates below.