Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

“Everything Strange and New” is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times. Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. He has a wife, two kids, and a house; he’s living the American Dream. There’s a fine line, however, between a dream and a nightmare, and Wayne finds himself at odds with the life he has and preoccupied by the life he thinks he wants. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else’s story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream.

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