Three Times Left is Right

Studio Julian Hetzel
Tue 30 Sep and Wed 1 Oct
Tue 30 Sep 2025
and
Wed 1 Oct 2025

Three Times Left is Right by Studio Julian Hetzel is a radical, provocative, funny, ambiguous piece about polarisation. An unorthodox family portrait that functions as a magnifying glass for society. Can we live together with people whose beliefs are diametrically opposed to our own?

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 rightwing but act leftwing—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.

In the media

DE STANDAARD ★★★★★
"Josse De Pauw is om op te eten in Three times left is right

DE VOLKSKRANT ★★★★
"houdt de kijker een spiegel voor: in hoeverre duwen we andersdenkenden weg?”

DIE PRESSE
“Genoeg gespreksstof na het zien van deze performance.”

DER STANDARD
“Een wild verhaal over liefde en ‘rechts'”

Credits

regie Julian Hetzel | performers Josse De Pauw, Kristien De Proost | dramaturgie Miguel A. Melgares | artistiek advies Sodja Lotker, Kristien De Proost | video- en lichtontwerp Bahadir Hamdemir | muziek & compositie Frank Wienk | regieassistent Esmée Begemann | technisch coördinator Aengus Havinga | productiecoördinator Jakob Proyer | productieassistent Yola Parie | geluid & development Tom Doeven | assistent kostuumontwerper Farah Nehme | decorbouwer Edd Vossen | assistent scenografie Django Walon | mechatronica Merijn Versnel | silicone kunstenaar Carly Heathcote | LED-technicus Daniel Pauselius | creatieve technologie Timm Burkhardt | stagiair Sophia op ten Berg

productie Studio Julian Hetzel
coproductie Wiener Festwochen (AT), Schauspiel Leipzig (DE)
partners onderzoeks- en contextprogramma De Balie Amsterdam (NL), SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht (NL), Theater Utrecht (NL), 
met steun van Gemeente Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Ammodo, FONDS ZOZ en K.F. Hein Fond
met dank aan CAMPO (BE)

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