Met Mystiek lichaam brengt Koen Verheijden Frans Kellendonks controversiële roman over een gepolariseerd Nederlands gezin op de planken.

Denken we nou écht dat wij het als samenleving beter doen dan vroeger?

The Gijselhart family wants nothing more than to belong together, but the harder they try, the further they drift apart. Because while we watch this dysfunctional family, the question inevitably arises: do we really think we are doing better as a society than in Kellendonk's time?

Forty years after the publication of Frans Kellendonk's controversial novel, director Koen Verheijden brings the story to the stage. Through a grotesque, sometimes rawly comical playing style in which humor and discomfort exist side by side, we see the broken Gijselhart family. A poignant mirror of polarized Dutch society on how people can lose each other. Precisely when they try to hold onto each other.

Please note! This performance is offered with Dutch and English surtitles.