Lucien Buysse - the Man without thirst

In this immersive theater monologue, Nick J. lets Hollevoet Lucien Buysse speak again. De Tourwinnaar of 1926, hardened by mud, mountains, and endless kilometers, stands not on the bike but in the word. From memory, he looks back on a life that was shaped by suffering, silence, and eventually… telling. The audience is drawn into the wild Tour de France of the interwar period: riders as warriors, roads as enemies, the mountains as inexorable judges. But between the heroic violence, space emerges for the human behind the champion. At a later age, Buysse proves to be a born storyteller — sharp, dry, moving — someone who recreates his past by sharing it. Nick J. Hollevoet switches between young and old, between struggle and memory, between silence and language. What begins as a sports story grows into a theatrical portrait of a man who achieved his greatest victories not only on the road, but also in the way he learned to retell his life. An immersive performance about myth and man, about suffering and listening, about the Tour de France as a theater of existence. One man. One voice. One legend. De Kleinen Buysse.