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Handle With Care by Ontroerend Goed

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There is string suspended across a room with folded cards hanging over it. A person stands behind it, out of focus and places a new card on the string. The new card reads: Somebody puts on some music.
Ans Brys
A white ladder on stage with a large white piece of paper that reads: Leave No Trace Behind. There is a person behind the paper who is barely visible. The photo is taken from the perspective of looking out to the auditorium, and it is a large theatre with a dress circle and balcony in view, with lush red velvet seats.
Ans Brys
A person wears a striped shirt, jeans and sneakers and faces away from the camera. They are holding the lid of a box and reading instructions on a label, the instruction text is unable to be read. The person is positioned in front of a string which has printed cards attached to it with pegs, the text on the printed cards is out of focus.
Ans Brys
There is string suspended across a room with folded cards hanging over it. A person stands behind it, out of focus and places a new card on the string. The new card reads: Somebody puts on some music.
Ans Brys
A white ladder on stage with a large white piece of paper that reads: Leave No Trace Behind. There is a person behind the paper who is barely visible. The photo is taken from the perspective of looking out to the auditorium, and it is a large theatre with a dress circle and balcony in view, with lush red velvet seats.
Ans Brys
A person wears a striped shirt, jeans and sneakers and faces away from the camera. They are holding the lid of a box and reading instructions on a label, the instruction text is unable to be read. The person is positioned in front of a string which has printed cards attached to it with pegs, the text on the printed cards is out of focus.
Ans Brys
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Theatre stripped down to its essence. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you.

A box is mailed to the theatre.
The instructions are clear:
Invite a group of people, on a specific night, 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.

In Handle with Care, internationally renowned interactive theatre company Ontroerend Goed puts you in control. We provide the structure: you shape the experience. Choose your role - take the lead or observe as others make choices that street the performance in unexpected directions. 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 in Handle with Care. You've got this. For one hour, you'll live something unique, fleeting, and unrepeatable. Here. Now. Together. No one is watching. What is yours, stays yours. Take good care of it. And send us a postcard.

This work has been commissioned by: NTGent (BE); Stadttheater Schaffhausen (CH); Melbourne Fringe (AU); Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK); Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow (UK); CCAM Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (FR); IDFA, Amsterdam (NL); YOUNG Theatre, Shanghai (CN); Hexagone Scène Nationale, Meylan (FR); MAIF Social Club – Biennale Némo, Paris (FR); La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Lowry, Salford (UK); Scène Nationale Carré-Colonnes, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles (FR); Theater RAMPE, Stuttgart (DE); The Zoom Arts Center, Seoul (KR); Hong Kong Arts Festival (HK); Cambridge Junction (UK); The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HR); La Mouche, Saint-Genis-Laval (FR); Nuovo Teatro Ateneo, Rome (IT); Gothenburg English Studio Theatre (SE); and Perpodium, Antwerpen (BE).

With the support of: the Flemish Community, city of Ghent, the Tax Shelter measures of the Belgian federal government & Cronos Invest. Many thanks to: Angelo Tijssens, zwartopwit, Speelkaartenmuseum / Rock Paper Pencil and Turnhout.

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    Handle With Care has a high level of audience participation: You are asked to participate, although you can pass everything on to someone else if you would prefer not to do a specific task or activity.

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    Death

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