In a touching plea for love, the Belgian theatre-maker Tom Struyf tries to recall why his memory is failing him.

In his “Act to Forget”, the young Fleming Tom Struyf finds an old photo in a drawer. The only thing is, he cannot remember the occasion or the people standing next to him in the photo. He sees himself in a suit standing next to a woman in a wedding dress. Did he get married? Because he has absolutely no recollection, he wants to find out why his brain’s capacity to remember is letting him down so badly – moreover this is not the first time that his memory has failed.

In conversations with a neurosurgeon, a past-life regression therapist, a philosopher, a psychologist, a Tai Chi teacher, and his own grandmother he tries to get to the bottom of it. Only when he is high up in the Swiss mountains it finally dawns on him why he is so forgetful.

The young Belgian theatre-maker Tom Struyf works at the intersection of theatre, lecture and performance. With blunt sincerity and astonishing charm, Struyf tries to portray how our thoughts determine our actions – developing a touching appeal for love.

Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Tom Struyf
Dramaturgie: Willem de Maeseneer
Video: Geert De Vleesschauwer
Konzept / Idee: Tom Struyf

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