WORLD PREMIERE: Three Times Left is Right

I love to hate you.
I hate to love you.

On May 17, 2025, Studio Julian Hetzel’s new performance Three Times Left is Right premiered at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna.

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.

Three Times Left is Right is 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 polarisation becomes so extreme we can no longer tell the difference? 

Starring real-life couple Kristien De Proost and Josse De Pauw, the performance invites 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.

Following its premiere, the production will be showcased at Schauspiel Leipzig and the SPRING Festival in Utrecht. For more details and upcoming dates, visit the official project page.