Housewarming

A successful life, a beautiful house, and friends to show it off to. But what if the evening that is supposed to confirm everything does exactly the opposite? Clara and Martin have just renovated their house. To celebrate, they invite their good friend Bernard. Proudly, they show him their new interior full of objects that hover between design and complete nonsense: from an antique leather pig to an electric walnut peeler. Clara and Martin are up to date with the latest trends, their son is doing fantastic at school, their sex life is more exciting than ever. But they are worried about their friend, Bernard. He is a writer, but barely publishes. He works in a factory, has no exclusive music collection, and doesn't want children. What begins as an apparently pleasant evening soon degenerates into a desperate search by the couple for the confirmation of their existence. But in that search, they are mercilessly confronted with the emptiness of their material and bourgeois life. 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 expectations 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 it all to? “One of the best performances of the season.” - Het Nieuwsblad Concept, acting and text adaptation Anna De Graeve, Kes Bakker and Toon Acke Coaching Willem de Wolf and Carine van Bruggen