Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

After his magnificent performances in Fabre’s two previous monologues, Dirk Roofthooft now brings the third soliloquy to the stage. In De Dienaar van de Schoonheid the protagonist, a puppeteer, looks back on his life. As a young man he wholly devoted himself to his patron, beauty. He struggles with questions as: What is beauty? What is the ultimate state of being? And how can it be achieved? Because he wants to achieve one more feat before he dies: becoming invisible as a puppeteer. He craves to be absorbed by the background, while his puppets come to life, and only his puppets and his floating eyes remain…

• This is the third of three pieces Jan Fabre wrote for actor Dirk Roofthooft. You can also see De keizer van het verlies en De koning van het plagiaat in Vooruit.