Forty years after the publication of Mystiek lichaam, Frans Kellendonk’s controversial novel, director Koen Verheijden brings the story back to the stage. Through his distinctive, layered prose, Kellendonk captured a year in the life of the fractured Gijselhart family. Their story grows into a powerful reflection of the increasingly polarised Dutch society at the close of the twentieth century. Remarkably, forty years on, that portrait remains strikingly relevant. The Gijselhart family longs above all to belong together, yet the harder they try, the further they drift apart.

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