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Mensen met problemen

Wunderbaum & NTGent
Razor-sharp tragicomic theater marathon
Thu 17 Dec ’26 18:00
17 Dec ’26
18:00
  • 17 Dec ’26
    18:00
    Schouwburg Kortrijk, Kortrijk
    Schouwburg - Zaal OAAS
    From 11 Jun ’26 10:00

In 'Mensen met problemen', we follow a woman and her friends through different phases of their lives. Each in their own way, they make a desperate attempt to do things differently and better. A marathon performance in four acts that never bores for a single second.

Actors' group Wunderbaum and NTGent present a translated cycle by the German-Swiss author Sibylle Berg for the first time in the Netherlands and Belgium. Directed by Jesse Vandamme, ‘Mensen met problemen’ follows the lives of a woman and her friends in four parts during different phases of their lives. The result is a razor-sharp tragicomic theatre marathon about people who fearlessly defy the status quo.

They are young. Their expectations are high, their actions tempestuous. They sell homemade drugs on the internet and are constantly available on all digital channels. They date, have empty sex, and cry in toilets. Then they are not so young anymore. They have children and a yearning for the countryside. Their bodies and adolescents protest. Friendships and careers crumble. Nature disappoints.

‘Mensen met problemen’ is a poignant account. A desperate attempt to do things differently and better. An escape to nature, crime, love, another planet, a bomb attack. What must we fight for? How much must you give up for it? What can still be saved?

 

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De blik op je eigen, ouder wordend leven wordt soms getekend door de heftige, veroordelende blik van de maatschappij die je hebt geïnternaliseerd. Dat is een strijd. De figuren ageren 'against the dying of the light’ en dat maakt ze helden; aantrekkelijke, grappige en ingewikkelde mensen.

Regisseur Jesse Vandamme

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Regie: Jesse Vandamme. Met: Bavo Buys, Laura De Geest, Maartje Remmers & Wine Dierickx. Tekst: Sibylle Berg. Tekstbewerking & dramaturgie: Koen Tachelet. Scenografie: Maarten Van Otterdijck. Kostuumontwerp: Judith Van Herck. Accordeon: Suzan Peeters.

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