Last Friday and Saturday we played Bubble Boy at the Kopergietery in Gent. The first one was on friday afternoon for schools and I must say, the told us that Belgian kids are much more calm and quiet than Dutch kids but luckily they showed us wrong. All 180 kids were so in the performance that they shouted, laughed, applauded and even sung.

In the evening we had our ‘Flemisch premiere’ with twenty kids and all the rest adults. The show went well and the audience was very moved in different ways. There were wome people that didn’t like our direct here and now style but most of the audience was really into it and even though it is a children s play they were talking a lot about the what and hows of the show. When the audience is busy with the show and not with telling you’ nice job or it was ok’ then you did a nice job.

On Saturday we played for families with kids and you notice immediately that that is the audience for who this piece is made. The children loved it and the parents were moved as well.

We worked for this reprise with one new doctor, Griet Dobbelaere and a new mama, Mieke Versyp and a new boy, Kasper.

We will play Bubble boy again on 24 and 25 of January in Brussels and Utrecht and October-November 2010 we will tour it in Holland and Belgium.