Vechtstuk
Almost ten years after the dialogue that started it all for Hof van Eede (now DE HOE) –Where the world is going, that's where we are going – DE HOE brings another dialogue played by Ans Van den Eede and Greg Timmermans. In those ten years, the world did go somewhere, and the late twenties have now become late thirties, almost forties.
Vechtstuk begins immediately with a bang – a clattering argument between a man and a woman, a couple. The recriminations fly around, over banal details and irreconcilable breaking points, over the great and the small, desperate and furious. Until the last harsh word has been said and the warring parties have run out of ammunition.
Then the play really begins. Because how do you get back on speaking terms after the unspeakable has been said? Can something of humanity germinate on the scorched earth? Or love? Underneath is a political question: how can people who verbally abused each other get back on speaking terms? How do you pick up the shards without cutting yourself? Because it remains exciting: a smouldering peat fire can flare up again at the slightest gust of wind.
In Dutch / 75 minutes