28 Oct

20:00

de Brakke Grond

Nes 45, Amsterdam

Dark Habits questions our longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism, balancing between intense mystical rituals and clumsy YouTube vanishing acts.

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:00

de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:00

de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

Simon Van Schuylenbergh / KWP: Dark Habits

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Dark Habits questions our longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism. Bringing together hypocritical saints, deceitful fortune tellers, and honest charlatans, it balances between the theatricality of intense mystical rituals and the clumsiness of cheap YouTube vanishing acts.

For centuries, religion played a meaning-making role. For many, it was not a matter of belief, but a given, as natural as taking a shit. Today, believing is often an individual choice. The market can fill in this gap. How do we engage with religious traditions when they so often rely on forms of discipline and control? And what if that is precisely their appeal?

Simon Van Schuylenbergh runs the cabaret anal pompidou. In Dark Habits, he uses exaggeration and perversion to translate the intimacy and chaotic energy born on a small scale into a do-it-yourself-pilgrimage for the main stage.

Accessibility

Language: English
Subtitles: Dutch
Duration: 90 minutes

Credits

Direction: Simon Van Schuylenbergh
Performance: Castélie Yalombo, Hanako Hayakawa, Rosie Sommers, Micha Goldberg, Charlotte Nagel, Simon Van Schuylenbergh
Music: Luce Elie Fiagan
Costume Design and Props: Hanako Hayakawa, Micha Goldberg
Scenography: Veronika Bezdenynkh
Light Design: Max Adams
Set Design and Technology: Remco Wuyts
Dramaturgy: Nathan Ooms, Anna Franziska Jäger
Flyer: Maya Strobbe
Artistic Research: Micha Goldberg, Chiara Monteverde, Marivi Gazeta, Lydia McGlinchey, Loucka Elie Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Munoz, Sophia Rodriguez, Helena Araujo, Nathaniel Moore, Marco Labellarte, Castélie Yalomb
Production: KWP Kunstenwerkplaats
Co-production: Toneelhuis, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Beursschouwburg
Partners: Theater Aan Zee, workspacebrussels, VIERNULVIER, De Brakke Grond, KMSKA, murf/murw
Research Partners: Kunstenwerkplaats, Atelier210, CAMPO, Brakke Grond, Kunstencentrum Buda, Gouvernement, decoratelier, the queer self-defense group Athens
With thanks to: Bart Van Schuylenbergh, Castillo, Siska Baeck & Steven Sommeryns
This production is supported by the Flemish Government.