DIKWIJLS (OFTEN / SOUVENT)
“Reaching the stillness, as a Chinese jar
still moves perpetually in its stillness.”
T.S. Eliot

We often do things without thinking about them. They come easily to us. Sometimes we do things so often that they become worn down into familiar habits within our bodies . There’s nothing wrong with that. But things do go wrong, though when we start thinking about them. Then nothing can be taken for granted. “Dikwijls”,is about three men thinking they have settled into a daily routine in their workshop.

some reviews:

“The existential doubts of three do-it-yourselfers”
The performance is one long commercial for doing it yourself. During more than an hour of working in silence-interrupted by the inevitable coffee breaks, all sorts of things have been constructed, but the hilarious result is a stage full of loose ends....dikwijls is a consolation to all do-it-yourselfers with half-finished bathrooms or warped floors…The path is more important than the outcome is the Zen message of Langedijk’s latest slow-motion slapstick…As always, Langedijk’s movements are steeped in existential doubt regarding the purpose and direction of existence.. This carpeting bloke clearly dreams of a life that comprises more than a bit of pottering about in a workshop. But simultaneously the ingenious masterpiece of the production demonstrates the opposite. That life can be as beautiful and simple as aimless tinkering in a workshop”.
(De Volkskrant)

“You only stop to think about the nature of an object when there’s something wrong with it. Dikwijls is one long relay of running gags, in which glueing clamps, inner tubes, doorhandles and packets of coffee are the protagonists.With regard to their slapstick, Jan Langedijk c.s. probably have closely watched Buster,….. with the same deadpan expression on their faces.This unemphaticness makes the performance even funnier: the fact that the thiongs have a will of their own surprises you in the same way as it does the players”.
(Het Parool)

“slapstickhaft komisch”
(Theater der Zeit)

“Jan Langedijk arrive à choreograpghier le “travail” de sorte qu’il devient un spectacle en soi, et nous livre sur scène des executions qui semblent être des rituals où il ný a pas de place pur penser et où les choses se font avec une familiarité déconcertante.La compagnie se p[roduit en France pour la première fois et ne tardera pas, cést sûr, à faire plus“souvent”du bricolage!”.
(Hebdoscope)