Three Times Left is Right

Studio Julian Hetzel

Tue 31 Mar ’26 - Sat 4 Apr ’26

Trigger Warning: an urgent and darkly humorous piece about polarisation.

English spoken

Tue 31 Mar ’26

Sat 4 Apr ’26

Tue 31 Mar ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Wed 1 Apr ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Thu 2 Apr ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Fri 3 Apr ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Sat 4 Apr ’26

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event

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 right but act left—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.

Art as a Weapon: context programme

Around the performance Three Times Left is Right, the multi-day public programme Art as a Weapon unfolds, exploring culture wars, propaganda, artistic resistance, and humor. The programme is curated by Studio Julian Hetzel in dialogue with DAS Theatre and Frascati.

View the full programme here.

Part of context programme Art as a Weapon

Credits

regie Julian Hetzel performers Josse De Pauw & Kristien De Proost dramaturgie Miguel A. Melgares artistic advisors Sodja Lotker & Kristien De Proost video- & lichtontwerp Bahadir Hamdemir music & composition Frank Wienk regieassistent Esmée Begemann technisch coördinator Aengus Havinga productiecoördinator Jakob Proyer productieassistent Yola Parie sound & development Tom Doeven assistent kostuumdesigner Farah Nehme decor Edd Vossen assistent scenografie Django Walon mechatronica Merijn Versnel silicone artist Carly Heathcote LED-technicus Daniel Pauselius dreatieve 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 Fonds

About Studio Julian Hetzel

Studio Julian Hetzel creates undisciplinary art projects that combine contemporary theatre, performance and visual arts. The works have a political dimension and a documentary approach. Studio Julian Hetzel creatively experiments with the manifestations of neoliberalism by highlighting dilemmas between ethical principles and economical interests. The artistic research of Studio Julian Hetzel is about “the big behinds”: the invisible economies and hidden power structures that govern this part of the world.