Three Times Left is Right

I love to hate you.  

I hate to love you. 

The left is in an identity crisis, with new right-wing political parties successfully claiming the revolutionary stance that once characterized the old left. The old is dying, the new cannot be born. 

With this new work, Studio Julian Hetzel explores the economics of polarization. A project about the proximity of hate and love, it takes the audience along an ideological Möbius strip that shows how ideas and people shift – leading to the formula: Three Times Left is Right. 

In a time of increasing polarization and the rise of radical right-wing, nationalist political movements, Studio Julian Hetzel has created a performance about the challenge of coexistence between radical extremes under one roof. A family portrait that explores the relationship between the populist right and the progressive left. 

“Hetzel manages to twist the political left and right into a single theatrical sausage, taking the crown from both Werner Schwab and Quentin Tarantino. This is the kind of bread and circuses theatre is made for.”  – Liv Laveyne in De Standaard 

Julian Hetzel, born in the Black Forest (Germany) and based in Utrecht, works as a performance maker, musician, and visual artist. He develops works at the intersection of theatre, music, and media that have a political dimension and a documentary approach. He is the artistic director of Studio Julian Hetzel. Hetzel received the VSCD Mime Prize for The Automated Sniper (by Frascati Productions and Ism & Heit). Hetzel has previously been seen at Kaaitheater with The Benefactor (2015) and All Inclusive (2018).