ARENDS

In ARENDS, the Poezieboys and the punk-poetic theatre group ECHO welcome you to a miserly, skinny, self-sabotaging, but also playful and humorous evening about poet Jan Arends. Together they create a performance full of poetry, personal stories, swear words, nightly phone calls and absurd fantasy worlds.

Jan Arends was one of the most uncompromising voices in Dutch literature. In his austere, razor-sharp poems, he wrote about loneliness, psychological suffering and the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Arends was not an easy man: sharp, unpredictable and difficult, but behind his anger and impotence was also a deeply hurt human being. Using his work as a starting point, Anna Schoen, Joep Hendrikx and Jos Nargy dive into his world and ask a question: how much room do we make for people who don't fit in?

It gets sparse. Dress warmly, because the heating goes out. You won't get anything to drink and you won't be brought home.