Dark Habits (premiere) - Simon Van Schuylenbergh / KWP

Dark Habits questions our longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism. It balances between the theatricality of mystical rituals and the clumsiness of cheap YouTube disappearance tricks. Religion had a meaning-giving role for centuries. For many, it was not a matter of believing, but a given, like daily actions like doing your business. Today, believing is an individual choice. Something the market can jump into. How do we deal with religious traditions, if they often rely on forms of discipline and control? What if that is exactly their attraction? Van Schuylenbergh runs the cabaret Anal Pompidou. Dark Habits translates, through exaggeration and perversion, the intimacy and chaotic energy that arises on a small scale into a do-it-yourself pilgrimage for the big stage. ... Read more at https://www.theateraanzee.be