Every year Needcompany gives fans a glimpse behind the scenes: in the
notorious Needlapbs, you can get a taste of ‘work in progress’, at the
point where the approach is still fluid and dynamic, and the piece is
yet to be moulded into its definitive shape. In 2011, Jan Lauwers wrote
the play Marketplace 76, which will be read during Needlapb 19.

This performance is a joint venture by the artist Hans Op de Beeck and writer-actor Pieter De Buysser. The piece physically links visual art and theatre, with Hans creating an object and Pieter writing a play to perform alongside it. Hans has constructed a chest with hidden cupboards and drawers. Pieter has devised a story about storing things away and forgetting them, a story that’s part blood-curdling fairytale, part edgy road movie.