MOTIVATION…

A smile, a startle, an open mouth in amazement. That’s all it has to be. The feeling, on the way home, that you touched people in some way. That they are thinking about that strange encounter tonight. And doubt.

The Abacus Theater is the work of creator and builder Jan Wessels, who, along with his son Peter and a changing group of players and artisans, seeks to shed the dull everyday reality for a while.

Somewhere in the countryside in northern Netherlands is their home base, where they are constantly working on new plans….