DE HOE - THE SITCOM

It has been eight years since the legendary sitcom DE SITCOM, created and performed by a theater collective on the edge of financial ruin. No budget, just a real group of friends in a real coffee bar. A TV series that was so rarely authentic and radical, so hilarious and disruptive, so deeply human and tragic, that it immediately became a cult hit. To the bewilderment of the ever-growing fanbase, however, the series had a gaping open ending. Life had mercilessly overtaken fiction. Eight years later, sitcoms are retro, a genre from a time when laughter was closer to us than tears. Nostalgia has become a business model, and so producers are bringing the group back together. How have they fared? Can they continue together? DE SITCOM is a sharp, chaotic tragicomedy in which Natali Broods, Peter Van den Eede, Wim Helsen, and others must reenact their own tragic lives, but as if it were one big joke. It is also the making-of that sitcom, including the loves, the breakups, the distrust, the cautious attempts at reconciliation, the betrayal, and the hope, always, for a happy ending after all.