Please don't make love to me I'm exhausted

In Please don't make love to me, I'm exhausted everyone tries to survive by pursuing small moments of happiness. A clown in an interrogation room looks tragicomic in front of him, although that could be because of his runny face paint. Stubbornly, he continues to fold balloon dogs as the questions keep coming. A merman drags himself panting, craving last drops to feel like a fish in the water one last time. And two stand-up comedians try desperately to elicit laughter from an audience that stares back icily.

Clown, merman and comedian each in their own way look for something to hold on to in a world on fire. DeRonde/Deroo makes cinematic, physical, acrobatic theatre in which the body is always the starting point. As a viewer you are immersed in surreal, absurdist dream worlds with their own rules and laws, poetic and unpredictable. There is always the same question: how do you carry on while everything around you is shaking to its foundations?