BigMouth

He who picks his words well can turn the weakest argument into the strongest. The absolute truth doesn’t exist. It is just a pretty lie for those who desire world power, or just the hand of their beloved.

In a tour de force performance, Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration. Ingeniously weaving together fragments of seminal speeches from not only the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden, Bigmouth shows that the tricks of rhetoric have hardly changed.

With five microphones on a bare set, his voice and indefatigable energy, Dhaenens traverses sermons, declarations of war, farewells, final arguments, victory speeches and eulogies from across time. Bigmouth has captivated audiences in Belgium and the Netherlands. SKaGeN follows hot on the heels of Ontroerend Goed as one of the most exciting European companies to come to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.