The invisible man 4+
A philosophical game of hide and seek
Two artists, a stage technician and a musician are waiting to start their show. Everything is in place, but why hasn’t the audience arrived? Things start getting more and more unclear from then on. Who is playing the piano? Whose coffee mug is that, floating through the air? And who is that ghost sneaking off with that extension cord? Are the performers really here, or not? And can you actually see them, or will you just have to believe they are here?
De onzichtbare man (The invisible man) is a show about everything you don’t see. And it secretly revels in the joy of remaining unseen.
The invisible man 4+ won a VSCD Silver Cricket, was nominated for the VSCD Mime Award and was selected by Het TheaterFestival 2018!
When he was a boy Jetse Batelaan would sometimes make a drawing and then cover it with a clean white sheet of paper. When he auditioned for the Mime school he left the room to perform an act at the tram stop – where nobody would see him. On stage you can see his actors refusing to manifest themselves: they too, give off the impression they’d rather stay hidden. This duality between showing yourself and wanting to hide away at the same time is Jetse’s favourite theme. In De onzichtbare man he has developed it for the age group with the greatest capacity for suspension of disbelief: four and five year-olds. A show driven by a logic of its own and with lots of laughter. It will have audiences on the edges of their seats.
“What a treat. A continuous, terrific game of hide and seek.”
“The roar of applause is well-deserved.”
“A bravely staged fairytale about imagination and recognition.”
“The invisible man? Well, he really is invisible. There’s no tricks or anything. He’s just real!”
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about the invisible man
René van ‘t Hof/René Groothof
Marijn Brussaard
Nimuë Walraven/Kim Karssen
Keimpe de Jong
Jetse Batelaan
Eva Koopmans
Bart van den Heuvel
2019 Schäxpir Linz
2019 Edinburgh International Children’s Festival