The New Time & DE HOE

Attention: this performance takes place in the Stadsschouwburg van Mechelen and was incorrectly listed in our printed season brochure with performance date on Wed. 17/03/27. How do you lead a meaningful life? That was the starting point of the speech ‘This is Water’ by David Foster Wallace. De Amerikaanse writer read the text in 2005 at the graduation ceremony of a prestigious college for an audience of students on the threshold of adult life. He did that sweating. You would for less, because how do you give young people advice in God's name if you don't know it all yourself? ‘Dit is water’ is a generous performance with and about good advice and about the (im)possibility of following it. Twenty-two years later, the members of De Nwe Tijd and DE HOE are on average exactly the same age as Wallace was when he gave his speech. In the second part of the trilogy they make around his oeuvre and persona, they now think together about that same question: how do you lead a meaningful life? What does that mean, a meaningful life, anno 2027? And how can you pass on to a younger generation what you only dare to describe for yourself with much hesitation as ‘wisdom’? “’Dit is water’ grew into a theater experience hors catégorie. It gives a lot of lived life wisdom.” (Pzazz) From and with: Ans Van den Eede, Elvis de Launay, Freek Vielen, Suzanne Grotenhuis, Willem de Wolf and Wannes Gyselinck in collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Mechelen