Present - Johan Terryn

Just like in his previous performances The Hired Man, Het Uur Blauw and Tot Onze Grote Spijt, Johan Terryn knows how to touch the audience again with his stand-up psychology. His tone varies between funny, conjuring, moving, and heartwarming. Johan Terryn remembers his father who was present without being present. Just like so many fathers of that generation. Whatever you asked, the answer was invariably ‘hmm’. When he leaves his own young adult son in a distant, strange city and drives away waving hesitantly, he wonders if he himself has been enough. Present. The feeling ‘I still have so much to give’ haunts him. On the long drive back, he makes a catch-up move. He collects the most important life lessons. The things his own father never spoke out and that he now has to invent himself or borrow from people he admires. A speech to send his son into life. His own – sort of – ‘Wear Sunscreen’ or ’900 km of good advice to be fully present in this life