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GOTHENBURG ENGLISH STUDIO THEATRE 

 in an international collaboration, presents the world premiere of 

HANDLE WITH CARE

by Ontroerend Goed

17 October - 8 November 2025​

GOTHENBURG ENGLISH STUDIO THEATRE 

 in an international collaboration, presents the world premiere of 

Photo by Lina Ikse

HANDLE WITH CARE

by Ontroerend Goed

A truly unique theatre experience — with collaborating theatres in over 20 countries performing simultaneously around the world!

 

“There are no

strangers here;

only friends you

haven't yet met” 

— William Butler Yeats

 

Handle with Care  is theatre stripped down to its essence. No actors, no technician. Just a box. And you.

The box is placed at the centre of the stage.

The audience is waiting.

And then an audience member stands up and opens the box.

The show has started. 

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In Handle with Care, you create something special: a shared experience filled with reflections on time, transience, and togetherness.

For one hour, you’ll live something unique, fleeting, and unrepeatable.

Here. Now. Together. No one is watching. What is yours, stays yours. Take good care of it. And send us a postcard.

 

Limited run: Only four performances, only 45 tickets per performance.

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PRODUCTION: Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)

COPRODUCING THEATRES: NTGent (Belgium); Stadttheater Schaffhausen (Switzerland), Melbourne Fringe Festival (Australia); Theatre Royal Plymouth

(UK); Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow (UK); CCAM Scène

Nationale de Vandoeuvre (France); IDFA, Amsterdam (Netahrlands);

YOUNG Theatre, Shanghai (China); Aranya Theater Festival

(China); Hexagone Scène Nationale, Meylan (France); Le MAIF

Social Club – Biennale Némo, Paris (France); La Comédie de

Clermont-Ferrand (France); The Lowry, Salford (UK); Scène

Nationale Carré-Colonnes, St. Médard (France); RAMPE,

Stuttgart (Germany); The Zoom Arts Center, Seoul (Korea); Hong

Kong Arts Festival (Honkong); Cambridge Junction (UK); The

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (Croatia); Théâtre La

Mouche, Saint-Genis-Laval (France); Nuovo Teatro Ateneo, Rome

(Italy); Gothenburg English Studio Theatre (Sweden); Perpodium,

Antwerpen (Belgium)

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19.00:

17 October, 7 November

18.00:

18 October, 8 November

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AGE GUIDANCE

15 +

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RUNNING TIME

approx. 1 hour, no interval

 

PLAYWRIGHT

​Ontroerend Goed

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GESTs ARTISTIC DIRECTORs

Kristina Brändén Whitaker
​Gary Whitaker

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​PRODUCTION MANAGER

Sarah Johansson

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​PHOTOS

Ans Brys

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Hearing aid

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We have installed a hearing loop (hörslinga) in our new theatre space! Now hearing our actors will be easier for our audience members who use hearing aids or have cochlear implants.

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