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Life is easier with one finger less
Light/Light Collective
Location: [vdm_event_location]
Dates:
[vdm_eventbuttons]- GENRE: Multimedia performance, Puppetry, Text theatre
- THEME: Changing the Norm, Connection, Dystopia / Utopia
- LANGUAGE: English
- Smoke / Fog machine
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: [vdm_event_duration]
Everybody wants Henry Flowers to cut off his fingers.
Henry is very against this idea. He’s fond of his hands the way they are. He needs them for important things… Like sculpting.
His father thinks the fingers are a distraction. It’s better to get rid of them. They’re good for nothing.
It’s time Henry becomes a proper citizen and stops twiddling his thumbs.
Henry Flowers is more than a play, it is a surreal rite of passage—a theatre of blasphemy, transformation, and devotion. It weaves together music, light art, puppeteering, and a monumental descending sculpture of a hand.
Biography
Visually striking, sonically complex, and emotionally uncanny—Light/Light Collective invites audiences into dreamscapes where meaning emerges through intuition, atmosphere and sensory experience.
The collective brings together light artist Ulysse Fontaine, sound artist and composer Mateusz Godlewski, and visual artist/performer Omer Van Soldt in a richly interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary theatre. Their collaborative process begins with a strong emphasis on audiovisual imagination, treating light, sound, and gesture as narrative forces in their own right.
This immersive approach becomes the groundwork from which text and story arise organically, resulting in surreal, absurdist dialogues that challenge conventional dramaturgy.
credits
Co-directed by: Omer Van Soldt & Mateusz Godlewski,
Co-written by: Naomi Collier Broms, Omer Van Soldt & Mateusz Godlewski,
Light/technical director – Ulysses Fontaine,
Metal sculpture – Alper Cekinmez,
Music – Mateusz Godlewski,
Mix & Mastering – Marcos Shukuroglou,
Priest – Hans Muller,
Neutral – Naomi Collier Broms,
Henry – Tom Huppermans – Bonardeaux,
Costumes – Zofia Siennicka,
Poster – Ringailė Demšytė
Pre-recorded choir – Despina Kelesidou
Hand’s voice: Thomas Dudkiewicz