An honest man! - Mathias Sercu & De Opportuniteiten

Together with De Opportuniteiten, Mathias invites you, as it were, onto his lap for an evening of witty and moving songs, reflections, and stories about life in all its endearing ridiculousness. In this wonderfully humorous full-length program, Mathias Sercu serves you his own Dutch-language work. Inspired by childhood heroes like Guido Belcanto and Hugo Matthysen, he creates a world in his songs in which the fallible human being plays the leading role. With his sense of irony and fatal plot twists, Mathias has gradually grown into the uncrowned king of anti-heroes. In real life, Mathias combines the profession of actor with that of singer and that of screenwriter. And you can feel that in his songs. The humorous and self-deprecating writing style he uses in his plays, the colorful and often ridiculous characters he brings to life in the successful series ‘Chantal’ on VRT1, but also the emotion and warmth he sent into cinemas with his first feature film ‘J’aime la vie’ can be found entirely in his clever and witty song lyrics, which are often tragicomic reflections on love, on life, on the searching human being. Titles like ‘The tragedy of Ronny & Conny’, ‘Things you better not say to your girlfriend’ or 'He didn't hear it’, already give you an idea of what to expect. “Humor and tragedy are at their strongest when they are allowed to go hand in hand.” - (Mathias Sercu)