Amai special hat - DE MAAN & 4Hoog

I have two homes. AMAI. Above one of my homes live two dinosaurs, who are adopted. Next to my other home live three grandmas, there is a lot of telephoning there. The cranes live in between, that is a new blended family. SPECIAL. The people in my city form wonderful families with always a plate of food too many, a shoulder of comfort to spare and a pancake ritual! CHAPEAU! Amai Speciaal Chapeau starts from a simple but powerful thought: families exist in all shapes and sizes. It is an ode to everything that is 'different'. Karlien Torfs and Nikolas Lestaeghe make a performance that is rooted in their own lives, a life in which they as good friends raise a daughter together. From the many questions people have about their family construction and their ambition to question the 'normal', Amai Speciaal Chapeau arises. In a world where the house-garden-child-family is becoming the norm again, they look for ways to shape their own lives in their reality that does not correspond to this model. They make the performance for their daughter, who was three years old at the time of the premiere, and for all other three-year-olds. However exuberantly versatile she unfolds, you won't catch them on idle arbitrariness. Amai Speciaal Chapeau is not a mere creative animation 'for children', but especially for the makers a project that their heart is in. You feel that. You also notice that in the ingenuity behind every detail, such as the sheep that bleat 'meieiei' and 'weieiei' at each other from two separate mountain tops: the entire individualization and polarization of this epoch in one image. Yes, that's possible! Thoughtful simplicity without simplism or essentialism: that is what toddler theater makes special. This performance by De Maan and 4hoog has it all. - Wouter Hillaert, pzazz Stay a while after the performance for a creative workshop and pancakes!