Three Times Left is Right
Trigger Warning:
Three Times Left is Right is an urgent and darkly humorous piece about polarisation.
In their new performance, Studio Julian Hetzel asks: How do we coexist with those whose beliefs are worlds apart from our own? Three Times Left is Right focuses on a couple at odds. Torn between conflicting beliefs, they embody the challenge of living together under irreconcilable ideologies. A family portrait that magnifies the fractures of society. “I love to hate you. I hate to love you.” A performance that takes you along a political Möbius strip. What if your moral compass shifts? What if you think right but act left—or the other way around? What happens when polarization becomes so extreme we can no longer tell the difference?
This performance is an invitation for the audience to explore ideological conflicts in which violence is normalised. Three Times Left is Right turns theater into a space for speculation to stage an unsettling future scenario. Everything has an end – but a sausage has two.
Première: 17.05.2025 at Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (AT)
German premiere: 22.05.2025, Schauspiel Leipzig (DE)
Dutch premiere: 29.05.2025, SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL)
Read more about the public research sessions in collaboration with De Balie:
- I HATE TALKING #1: A conversation about polarisation with Bart Brandsma and Julian Hetzel
- I HATE TALKING #2: A conversation about emotions and politics with Agneta Fischer and Julian Hetzel
Trailer Three Times Left is Right
Teaser by Gabriele Ottino
Music by Spime.im
Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft, Bornem (BE)
Schauspiel Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
Theater Oostpool, Nijmegen (NL)
Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie (SHIFT / Explore the North), Leeuwarden (NL)
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- De Groene Amsterdammer, Han van Wieringen Read more
- Theaterkrant, Fransien van der Putt (critic's choice) Read more
- PZAZZ, Pieter T’Jonck Read more
- Het Parool Read more
- Trouw Read more
- Radio Ö1 Listen here
- Die Presse Read more
- Der Standard, Michael Wurmitzer Read more
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, Yvonne Poppek Read more
- Abendzeitung, Michael Stadler Read more
- Il Corriere della Sera, Rossella Menna
- Teatroecritica, Matteo Columbo Read more
Direction: Julian Hetzel
Performers: Josse De Pauw, Kristien De Proost
Dramaturgy: Miguel Melgares, Sodja Lotker
Artistic collaborator: Kristien De Proost
Video & light design: Bahadir Hamdemir
Music & composition: Frank Wienk
Technical coordinator: Aengus Havinga
Production coordinator: Jakob Proyer
Touring production: Yola Parie, Zarah Ruwhof
Sound & Programming: Tom Doeven
Tour technicians: Tom Doeven, Ruben Lijbers, Koen van der Heijden, Harm Bredero
Creative Technology: Timm Burkhardt
Directors assistant: Esmée Begemann
Scenography: Julian Hetzel, Django Walon
Costume assistant: Farah Nehme
Set builder: Edd Vossen
Mechatronics: Merijn Versnel
Special effects and props: Chaja Hertog, Carly Heathcote
LED technician: Daniel Pauselius
Intern: Sophia op ten Berg
Poster boys: Koen Van Der Heijden, Harm Bredero, Aengus Havinga, Yola Parie, Jakob Proyer
Production: Studio Julian Hetzel
Coproduction: Wiener Festwochen (AT) Schauspiel Leipzig (DE)
Partners creation, research and context programme: CAMPO Gent (BE) De Balie Amsterdam (NL) SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL)
With the support of: City of Utrecht (NL) Performing Arts Fund (NL) Ammodo Art (NL) Fonds ZOZ (NL) K.F. Hein Fonds (NL)