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You dream of an empty room in a country house. You hear someone pacing about in an adjacent room. You don’t know why, but you know who it is. You want to go to them. A door leads you to another room, which is also empty, as are all the rooms after that. You go up some stairs, then down some stairs. Everywhere is empty. (Somewhere, there are footsteps.) You walk and walk, until you end up back where you started from – you realise you are in an endless circuit of empty rooms.

You wake up and dress as quietly as possible. You exit, leaving the key behind.

This is where you start.

In this physical, visual production, Gerben Vaillant – in collaboration with Fleur van den Berg and performers Charlotte Gillain and Felix Schellekens – brings several fascinations together. Ben Willekens’ lonely paintings of empty rooms; a relationship heading for the rocks; the marginalised art of pantomime; the endless parade of people walking out the door following a bad one-night-stand. A production that is both sexy and lonesome, in which the endless interchangeability of people and things becomes palpable, while at the same time the performers have everything and nothing to lose.