A box is mailed to the theatre. The instructions are clear: Invite a group of people, on a specific date, at a specific time. Let the audience take their seats. Place the box at the centre of the stage. The audience is waiting. And then an audience member stands up and opens the box. The show has started. Handle with Care is a theatre performance in a box. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you. In Handle with Care, the audience is in control. The artists provide the structure; you shape the experience. Choose your role—take the lead or observe as others make choices. Together, you create something special: a shared experience filled with reflections on time, transience, and togetherness. And don't worry—there are no wrong choices. For one hour, you'll live something unique, fleeting, and unrepeatable. Here. Now. Together. No one is watching.
Audience Role
Choose your role—take the lead or observe as others make choices. People are asked to participate, though they can pass everything on to someone else in case they don't feel like doing so.
Ages: 13 +
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About ONTROEREND GOED
Theatre-performance-group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as “Feel Estate”) produces self-devised work grounded in the here and now, inviting their audiences to participate as well as observe. They first emerged on the international scene in 2007, with ‘The Smile Off Your Face’, a one-on-one show in which the audience is tied to a wheelchair and then blindfolded. Their hit show ‘Once and For All’ was an uncompromising celebration of raw teenage energy on stage. With every new piece of work, Ontroerend Goed provides an intense experience constructed in reality; life goes on during the performance. The company has won numerous prizes across Europe and has hit New York, Sydney, London to critical acclaim. Their work is currently being performed in countries around the world Ontroerend Goed functions as a collective guided by the artistic director Alexander Devriendt. Convinced that every idea deserves its own brand of artistic expression, the company cherishes a sense of ownership for every single contributor to their work, from actors to light designers, scenographers to conceptual thinkers. Ontroerend Goed fabricates possible realities that question how we as individuals position ourselves in the world today. Covering a history of the universe in one evening, turning spectators into voters who eliminate actors, guiding strangers through a labyrinth of mirrors and avatars to meet themselves, the company has made it its trademark to be unpredictable in content and form.