concept & direction Julian Hetzel performers Josse De Pauw, Kristien De Proost dramaturgy Miguel Melgares artistic advice Sodja Lotker video and lighting design Bahadir Hamdemir music and composition Frank Wienk props / silicone artist Carly Heathcote assistant set designer & prop maker Django Walon assistant director & artistic coordinator Esmée Begemann technical coordinator Aengus Havinga sound & light/video technicians Tom Doeven t.b.c., intern Sophia op ten Berg production Studio Julian Hetzel co-production Wiener Festwochen (AT), Schauspiel Leipzig (DE), research and context programme partners De Balie Amsterdam (NL), SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht (NL), Theater Utrecht (NL), supported by Gemeente Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Ammodo, FONDS ZOZ, K.F. Hein Fonds, with thanks to CAMPO (BE)
In their new performance, Studio Julian Hetzel asks: How do we coexist with those whose beliefs are worlds apart from our own? Three Times Left is Right focuses on a couple at odds. Torn between conflicting beliefs, they embody the challenge of living together under irreconcilable ideologies.
With their opposing beliefs, they embody the challenge of living together with irreconcilable ideologies. A family portrait that magnifies the fractures running through society.
“I love to hate you. I hate to love you.” A performance that takes you on a political Möbius strip. What happens when your moral compass shifts? When you think left but act right — or the other way around? What happens when polarisation becomes so extreme that we no longer see the difference?
This performance invites the audience to examine ideological conflicts in which violence has become normalised. Three Times Left Is Right transforms the theatre into a space for speculation, staging a disturbing vision of the future. Everything has an end — but a sausage has two.
Dutch spoken, English subtitles