Hendrik Quast: Spill Your Guts

by Hendrik Quast

His gut has a voice and it's relentless. A darkly comic ventriloquist show about a gut gone rogue. Half healthy, half sick, Hendrik performs alongside a sharp-tongued dummy embodying his illness: a chronic, invisible, inflammatory force, a dysfunctional double act turning against him. Blending theatre, comedy and musical elements, Quast argues with his puppet about shame and what spills out. Beginning as a classic act, spiralling into chaos: the illness doesn't just disrupt his gut, it speaks. And Quast listens: to his illness, to the medical system and to the healthy faces watching him.

Content warnings: Audience participation, Audience required to walk or move around during the performance