Kim Karssen /Frascati Producties
WE'RE ALL ALONE IN THIS TOGETHER
About a clown dressed up as a human being in a grown-up world.
We’re all alone in this together is a visual, musical production about dating. About the feeling that you’re a clown in a grown-up world, disguised as a human being in the hope of persuading someone to stay with you. But your clown suit keeps peeking out from under your human costume, and you’ve forgotten the steps to ‘the human dance’.
In her latest production, Kim Karssen and co-performer Elias de Bruyne show an explosion of imagination that looks a lot like reality, even though you end up really hoping it’s all made up. Two individuals don’t want to be alone, but don’t know how to be together. They want to build a world, but don’t know what tools to use to do so.
We’re all alone in this together is a tragicomic performance about arming yourself against the dragons on the battlefield of love. As well as against the spectres in your head. Against the scary man who follows you home from school – and against the dragon next door, the neighbour who tells you you’ve made it all up yourself. Because, if you’re a clown disguised as a human being, how are you supposed to know which dragons are human and which humans are dragons?
“Playwright Kim Karssen adds a beautiful, stylistic work to her impressive, fledgling oeuvre. We're All Alone in This Together is visual theater that gets under your skin. ★★★★
“It is clever, it is wry and, despite its serious subject matter, it is terribly funny. ★★★★
We’re all alone in this together is set in Kim Karssen’s world.
You can’t make a world all by yourself.
At the end of the day, there’s hardly anything you can make all by yourself. Relationships, houses, parties, people: you can’t make any of these alone. But you can break them. Messing things up is pretty easy to do all by yourself, unfortunately. If you want to break someone, just make sure they’re alone – then all you need do is wait. Eventually they’ll break all by themselves.
Kim Karssen built this world with Thibaud Delpeut, Elias De Bruyne, Scott Robin Jun, Hanne Pierrot, Noah Jansen and Tobias Moerenhout
Co-production: De Warme Winkel
Disclaimer: Transgressive behavior is a topic.