Freaky Friday Face Off

Freaky Friday Face Off
25 Oct '23 to 19 Mar '24
De Warme Winkel

Freaky Friday Face Off is a spectacularly spiritual performance with confrontational self-examination, dramatic strings, perverse family relationships and pigeons flying all around. A kaleidoscopic palace of mirrors in which not only bullets, but also spiritual artillery flies around.

Run time tba
Genre theatre
Language Dutch

Opening night Thu October 26
In Gesprek Fri October 27

Freaky Friday Face Off


You have been taught as a child, you practice it all your life, but it remains one of the hardest things to do: putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.

In Freaky Friday Face Off, the actors take this very literally: they become the other person. Lightning strikes or an evening of magic gets out of hand and suddenly they switch bodies. Man becomes woman, straight becomes gay, old becomes young. You know the principle from vulgar Hollywood films: body-swapping guarantees spectacle. Or did they always have sneaky philosophical undertones?

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De Warme Winkel takes a closer look at our fascination with identity through an ingenious role-playing game. Can you tell someone's story if you haven't experienced their history first-hand? Is that super-empathic or just an embarrassing form of appropriation? Can an actor play someone else at all or is acting an art form that belongs to the past, like the fresco?

De Warme Winkel is known for their intelligent performances that also often question the theatre. Yet their productions are always deeply rooted in human existence, full of interest in personal and political reality. Both substantive and witty, historically aware but looking to the future, purely dogmatic in its curiosity. Freaky Friday Face Off, after De Warme Winkel plays De Warme Winkel and A Sincere Ode to Irony, is the third volume in the series of obscure-intellectual themes for the general public.

Credits


concept, text Florian Myjer, Marieke de Zwaan
concept and direction Ward Weemhoff
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actors Tessa Jonge Poerink, Florian Myjer and others

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