Mensen met problemen

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?