ReinAard - the solo (premiere) - Behoud de Begeerte

Starting this summer, gifted performer Tom Lanoye will tour with "ReinAard — de solo," a verbal tour de force based on ReinAard, his bestseller and personal vision of the fox. Balancing between the sublime and the banal, the witty and the cruel, booming Dutch and vulgar Dutch-English, but always swinging like crazy. That makes "ReinAard — de solo" a unique experience: a writer who measures himself against ancient characters and the contemporary words he devised for them. A literary bird's-eye view with a ruthless fox as the main character — ‘a superior rogue, whose age-old tricks illustrate in a bewilderingly topical way how populism works’, according to Humo. Or: how the lie still reigns, albeit thanks to tasty verses and cunning curses. ... Read more at https://www.theateraanzee.be