After his award-winning fifth theater performance Tegen Beter Weten In, actor and grand artist Theo Maassen made a carnival number, acted in the feature films TBS and Dunya En Desie In Morocco and received negative news in the news several times due to high-profile behavior. In the 2008-2009 season he played his sixth theater performance Zonder Pardon and it was even released as a cinema film. A
… set with Rorschach-like inkblots from the Netherlands and a CD disc that looks like a rusk with pink mice provide the right context for Maassen's tragicomic monologue. The birth of his daughter makes the young father think about the world she ended up in. He's worried about the rampant stupidity; shortsighted people who always look for the enemy outside of themselves and scapegoat Islam and foreigners. Filled with morbid humor, Maassen thoroughly investigates where and how things went wrong in the Netherlands. His treatise on the climate crisis, the integration issue, free speech, sex, death and love, which is fascinating from start to finish, unfortunately has no 'happy ending'. (SvdP)more
