Jakop Ahlbom & Alamo Race Track

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In 2009, the Amsterdam-based theatre wiz Jakop Ahlbom wowed the festival audiences with the show «Vielfalt». Now he returns with his award-winning homage to the great silent-movie comedian Buster Keaton, the pioneer of slapstick and physical comedy. Inspired by Keaton’s short movie «The Scarecrow», Ahlbom tells the story of two men who share a tiny, multifunctional living space. Accompanied live by the splendid music duo Alamo Race Track and in good old slapstick manner, they create a mechanical cleaning lady — with unforeseeable and disastrous consequences. «Hilarious, meticulously-staged  chaos», raved one critic. (kdi)