Toon Acke, Kes Bakker & Anna De Graeve - HOUSEWARMING

Clara and Martin have just renovated their house. To celebrate that, they invite their good friend Bernard. Proudly they show him their new interior full of objects that oscillate between design and complete nonsense: from an antique leather pig to an electric walnut peeler. ‘HOUSEWARMING’ is a timeless satire about a couple having a conversation that isn't really a conversation. We see the dissection of two deeply unhappy people who are burdened by the suffocating expectation patterns that society imposes on them. A couple that builds an identity based on what they possess, what they experience, what they wear... But what is such an identity worth if you have no one to show all that to? For this performance, the makers are inspired by authors such as Václav Havel, Thomas Bernhard, and Milan Kundera. Triggered by the contemporaneity of the themes and ideas in the critical and humorous work of these authors, they wrote a new text. "One of the best performances of the season" - Het Nieuwsblad