For his grand illusions, with dazzling lighting effects, he needs a whole range of props, but none of them have arrived at the theatre. Give up? Never. Because even when everything seems to be going wrong, you simply have to keep trying. And so the magician sets to work with almost nothing: a banana and a carton of apple juice, some butter for his sandwich, and a few photos from the newspapers he was reading. What follows is not what you would expect from a magic show and it is just enchanting. Through the images he creates by combining the objects, the magician searches for a way to connect with the world around him. And the magic show that was not supposed to happen, happens after all.

Theater  Artemis is renowned for its delightfully unconventional, original and philosophical productions for young audiences, which adults love just as much. Under the artistic direction of Jesse Bateman (Artemis), theatre-maker and visual artist Benjamin Verdonck is given complete freedom for his wonderful, associative and witty play with objects, materials and set pieces. ‘Brilliant clowning full, of cliff-hangers,’ Theaterkrant about All Before Death is Life.