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Handle with Care

Ontroerend Goed

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Information

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £14)*

*all orders subject to a transaction fee of £2

Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (approx.) (no interval)

Age Recommendation: 14+

This event takes place in person in our Council Chamber

Handle with Care is theatre stripped down to its essence. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you.

A box is mailed to the theatre. The instructions are clear: 
Invite a group of people, on a specific night, at a specific time. 
Let the audience take their seats. 
Place the box at the centre of the stage. 
The audience is waiting. 
An audience member stands up and opens the box. 
The show has begun. 

In Handle with Care, Ontroerend Goed puts the audience in control. They provide the structure; you shape the experience. Choose your role—take the lead or observe as others make choices that steer the performance in unexpected directions. 

Together, you create something special: a shared experience filled with reflections on time, transience, and togetherness. And don’t worry—there are no wrong choices. For one hour, you’ll live something unique, fleeting, and unrepeatable. Here. Now. Together. No one is watching. What is yours, stays yours.

Take good care of it. And send us a postcard.

 

‘More than a decade on, Ontroerend Goed is no less exciting as a company, but it has matured, become more compassionate in the way it explores and uses intimacy. It recognises a responsibility beyond the time spent in the theatre together’ Lyn Gardner, The Stage

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Biographies

The Belgian theatre-performance-group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as “Feel Estate”) produces self-devised work grounded in the here and now, inviting their audiences to participate as well as observe. Whether they are performing backwards; turning spectators into voters who eliminate actors; guiding strangers through a labyrinth of mirrors and avatars to meet themselves; or placing the audience at the controls of the financial system, the company has made it its trademark to be unpredictable in content and form.

Ontroerend Goed is Alexander Devriendt, Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Aurélie Lannoy, Leonore Spee, Samir Veen, Remi Cosijn, Wim Smet, Hannes Pieters, Luna Boone, Justine Boutens and Beth Thyrion.

Credits

Concept & Creation Alexander Devriendt, Karolien De Bleser, Samir Veen, Leonore Spee and Charlotte De Bruyne
Design Nick Mattan and Edouard Devriendt
Production Team Lynn Van den Bergh, Leda Decleyre and Hannes Pieters
Editor (English) Tiffer Hutchings

Production Ontroerend Goed
Coproduction NTGent (BE), Stadttheater Schaffhausen (CH), Melbourne Fringe Festival (AU), Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK), Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow (UK), CCAM Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre (FR), IDFA, Amsterdam (NL), YOUNG Theatre, Shanghai (CN), Aranya Theater Festival (CN), Hexagone Scène Nationale, Meylan (FR), Le MAIF Social Club – Biennale Némo, Paris (FR), La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (FR), The Lowry, Salford (UK), Scène Nationale Carré-Colonnes, St. Médard (FR), RAMPE, Stuttgart (DE), The Zoom Arts Center, Seoul (KR), Hong Kong Arts Festival (HK), Cambridge Junction (UK), The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HR), Théâtre La Mouche, Saint-Genis-Laval (FR), Nuovo Teatro Ateneo, Rome (IT), Gothenburg English Studio Theatre (SE), and Perpodium, Antwerpen (BE)

With the support of the Flemish Community, the City of Ghent; the Tax Shelter measures of the Belgian Federal Government, and Cronos Invest.

Many thanks to Angelo Tijssens

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in our Council Chamber. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS

If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing access@bac.org.uk. 

To book a free access companion online:

  • log in to your account here
  • go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
  • Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Pre-Show Information guides for this production will be made available from early July.

All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space at specific safe moments throughout the show.

VISIT OUR ACCESS PAGE

We want our shows to be as accessible to as many people as possible.

We offer tickets to most shows on a Pay What You Can basis throughout the year.

Tickets for Council Chamber performances in 2025 start at £9.50, and we have recommended pricing to help you choose a price that works for you.

We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If you can afford to pay the recommended price or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend.

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