Trigger Warning:
Three Times Left is Right is an urgent and darkly humorous piece about polarisation.
In their new performance, Studio Julian Hetzel asks: How do we coexist with those whose beliefs are worlds apart from our own? Three Times Left is Right focuses on a couple at odds. Torn between conflicting beliefs, they embody the challenge of living together under irreconcilable ideologies. A family portrait that magnifies the fractures of society. “I love to hate you. I hate to love you.” A performance that takes you along a political Möbius strip. What if your moral compass shifts? What if you think right but act left—or the other way around? What happens when polarization becomes so extreme we can no longer tell the difference?
This performance is an invitation for the audience to explore ideological conflicts in which violence is normalised. Three Times Left is Right turns theater into a space for speculation to stage an unsettling future scenario. Everything has an end – but a sausage has two.
"★★★★★ – Josse De Pauw is simply delicious in ‘Three Times Left Is Right’ (in Dutch)"
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"★★★★ – ‘Three Times Left Is Right’ holds up a mirror to the viewer: to what extent do we push away those who think differently?' (in Dutch)"
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"Indispensable political theater (in Dutch)"
- De Groene Amsterdammer Read more
"Once again, Julian Hetzel does not shy away from confrontation with the audience"
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Direction: Julian Hetzel
Performers: Josse De Pauw, Kristien De Proost & Jakob Proyer
Dramaturgy: Miguel Melgares
Artistic collaborators: Sodja Lotker & Kristien De Proost
Video & light design: Bahadir Hamdemir
Music & composition: Frank Wienk
Directors assistant: Esmée Begemann
Technical coordinator: Aengus Havinga
Production coordinator: Jakob Proyer
Production manager: Yola Parie
Sound & Programming: Tom Doeven
Costume assistant: Farah Nehme
Set builder: Edd Vossen
Scenography assistant: Django Walon
Mechatronics: Merijn Versnel
Silicone artist: Carly Heathcote
LED technician: Daniel Pauselius
Creative Technology: Timm Burkhardt
Tour technician: Nadia Bekkers
Intern: Sophia op ten Berg
Production: Studio Julian Hetzel
Coproduction: Wiener Festwochen (AT) Schauspiel Leipzig (DE)
Partners research and context programme: De Balie Amsterdam (NL) SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) Theater Utrecht (NL)
With the support of: City of Utrecht (NL) Performing Arts Fund (NL) Ammodo Art (NL) Fonds ZOZ (NL) K.F. Hein Fonds (NL)