How do you survive in a world you don’t understand? With Life & Times, Veerle van Overloop takes a look behind the walls of closed youth care. An important guideline for this multidisciplinary dance theater project is the main character from J.M. Coetzee’s novel Life & Times of Michael K. Michael is a lonely young man with social disabilities who spent his entire childhood in institutions. When he has to stand on his own two feet, he finds it difficult to find his way.

For Life & Times, ShELFISH works with a number of young people from the closed youth care institution in Groningen to record a radical adaptation of Coetzee’s text. This soundscape fuses with dance theater and a radical stage image to form a labyrinthine story about vulnerable young people and their difficult wandering through life.

Concept/regie - Veerle Van Overloop Performers - Olympia Kotopoulos, Matija Franjes/Nik Rasjzek Scenografie en visuals - WERCcollective Compositie - Niels van Dam Dramaturgie - Judith Blankenberg geproduceerd en gepresenteerd door - ShELFISH in coproductie met Grand Theatre