ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE

Gerben Vaillant incorporates a number of his pet subjects into this physical and visual performance, staged in collaboration with director-in-chief Fleur van den Berg and performers Charlotte Gillain and Felix Schellekens. Artist Ben Willekens’ forlorn paintings of empty rooms, a relationship that is on the rocks, the marginal art of pantomime and the endless procession of people walking out of the door after a bad one-night stand. A performance that is both sexy and lonely, in which the endless interchangeability of people and things becomes palpable and the performers have everything and nothing to lose.    

A simple composition about the infinite interchangeability of people and things (but really we just want you to wake up in someone else’s house).    

You dream you are in an empty room in a country house. You hear someone walking around in an adjacent room. You don’t know why, but you know who it is. You want to go there. A door leads you into the next room, which is also empty, as are all the other rooms. Up a staircase and down a staircase. Everywhere is empty. (You hear footsteps somewhere.) You walk until you are back where you started and you realize that it is a never-ending circuit of empty rooms.    

You wake up and get dressed as quietly as possible. You go outside, leaving the key behind.  

That’s where you start.

"A performance that fascinates up to and including the last scene." – Theaterkrant
"’On almost every page’ is everything you hope for from the theatre, and then more" – Het Parool