It is the most feared, avoided and at the same time most indispensable place at any festival: the DIXI. It is much more than a dull plastic box. It is a temporary temporary refuge where people can retreat. Here, people poop, text, change clothes, cry, laugh, conceive and daydream.
In the performance DIXI., we follow five friends at a festival. After a hurried visit to the toilet, they suddenly realise there are only four of them left. Their friend is missing. Not just briefly, as so often happens, but really missing. Gone. As if the DIXI has swallowed him whole. While the group makes its way through the pounding, sweaty, flashing mass of the festival crowd, the missing friend sinks into the raw, blue world beneath the DIXIs.
Theatre group ABSOLUUT. explores what remains when you look deeper: beyond the toilet seat and the rough toilet paper. What if the DIXI is not an endpoint, but a passageway? To something bigger, or smaller, or bluer. When the world is turned upside down, what is left of what you thought you knew?
The young Arnhem‑based collective ABSOLUUT. Creates site-specific spectacle theatre. With the speed of a TikTok feed, the randomness of your playlist on shuffle, and the humour of a Tom and Jerry scene. Their performances are raw and bombastic, featuring physical acting and theatrical effects, stage fighting, stunts and loud music. Previously, ABSOLUUT. performed DEBUUT. and FLITS. at numerous festivals in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Concept and performance: Bram Flick, Joppe Klein, Tijn Luijben, Catoo Post and Thom Vendrik
Final direction: Reinout Bongers
Concept and performance: Bram Flick, Joppe Klein, Tijn Luijben, Catoo Post and Thom Vendrik
Final direction: Reinout Bongers
