All before death is life
A magician showing empty hands and with (almost) nothing up his sleeve. He knows that one trick with the string, the one with yesterday’s newspaper, and the one with someone’s phone from the audience. We won’t tell you how the one with the matchbox in the dark ends – that would spoil the fun. But we can reveal that during the finale, the magician changes colour.
Nominated for the VSCD Mime/Performance Price 2026!
“We know Benjamin Verdonck as a manipulator of items and objects. Surrounded by the rubbish he uses to ingeniously walk the border between abstraction and imagination.” – Marijn van der Jagt, De Groene Amsterdammer
“Here he shines as an actor with deadpan humour.” – Marijn van der Jagt, De Groene Amsterdammer
Credits
- Production of Benjamin Verdonck — Theater Artemis en Wiener Festwochen
- Van en door Benjamin Verdonck
- Directed by Jetse Batelaan
- Kostuum Liesbet Swings
- Light design Iwan van Vlierberghe
- Coproduction Theater Artemis, Wiener Festwochen
- Photographs Nurith Wagner-Strauss
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