A table, a chair, a closet, no exit. The world in which this man was born seems very modest at first view. Obviously different rules apply here, but this you can only know if you have been already somewhere else. He was never somewhere else. As he begins to question the reality of his life, it nearly seems that there is, next to objects that come alive and a small bugging fly which he shares the room with, an imperceptible power that is playing a perfidious game with him. Yet who is holding the threads in the end is even surprising for himself.
“Janus” is a strange, circensic, magic, humorous, Kafkaesque psycho-thriller, which includes especially one thing: hats.
Duration: 60 min
Performer: Michael Zandl
Special FX: Tom Henden
Director: Matthias Romir
★★★★★
Janus was an accomplished and original one man show with some virtuoso juggling and high precision dropping.
-ArtsTalk Magazin
★★★★★
Janus is a great intelligent funny piece of work. I enjoyed every moment.
-Jean Gandini (Gandini Juggling)
★★★★★
With Janus, Michael Zandl testifies to the ingenuity and diversity of forms in the genre of the new circus.
-Badische Neueste Nachrichten
previous dates:
05.11.2021 TagträumerInnen Festival, Horn (AUT)
13.05.2021 Zappelini Zelt am Altentor, Nordhausen (DE)
14.05.2021 Zappelini Zelt am Altentor, Nordhausen (DE)
21-22.01.2022 T-Werk, Potsdam (DE)
29.10.2022, Flottmannhallen Herne (DE)
12.11.2020, Maaspodium Rotterdam (NL)
24.-25.10.2020 Cultureel Centrum Corrosia, Almere (NL)
02.10.2020 Story Telling Festival, Bad Schönau (AT)
23.-24.09.2020 ATOLL Festival, Karlsruhe (DE)
29.02.2020 Lourdeskerk, Scheveningen
17.-19.1.2020 Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin
28.9.2019 Korzo, Den Haag
5.-7.9.2019 Fringe Festival, Amsterdam
31.8.2019 Jonglierconvention Traun
26./27.6.2019 Kristallwerk, Graz
18.6.2019 KLOVNBUF Festival, Ljubljana
1.6.2019 Freiburg JC
29.5.2019 Freudenhaus, Lustenau