Johan Terryn

De ingehuurde man

A professor gives his audience a simple French lesson. Simple, but not entirely innocent. Slowly his lesson raises more and more questions.
The spectators witness the love drama that has played out in his life.

The theme of this show is the break-up that has brought the professor to his present state. That has turned him into a powerless spectator of his own pain and sorrow. That forces him to act in order to make his own grief meaningful.
But make no mistake, however touching the theme, the more cheerful the self-reflections that anyone who has ever experienced a long-distance relationship will recognise.

Along the way he wonders who invents all those strange proverbs, what women want to communicate with their hairstyle and how organised crime really is. On top of that, the spectator wonders: who is the hired man?

Johan Terryn

His fiercely appreciated solo theatre debut with 'Nooit van Niks Iets' in 2014 came remarkably late in Johan Terryn's career. But he doesn't keep us waiting long for a follow-up with his second show 'De ingehuurde man'.

Once again he uses a grotesque style and cabaret-like excursions. All of it to tell a tragicomic story about the impossibility of a love relationship and the rickety state of our communication.

Humour, poetry, raw reality and a gripping plot are never far away when Johan Terryn starts telling a story.