De koning
(The king)
If you won't buy the cow, what can one feed him?
Haven't we all forgotten to pay the farmer too?

I grew up reading the stories about farmers protesting with pitchforks again Kings' high taxes. I wonder whether things are still the same nowadays with extreme price pressure by the market. Dairy farmer Johan Koot and pig farmer Elly Michiels-Fleuren had to serve King Hans Bosklopper. As his serfs they took 62 potato, vegetable and meat meals to his table at an increasing pace unil he was satisfied. The sweaty farmers encountered more and more obstacles like ladders and the public stealing their plates. All the remains were eaten by poor artists.

Performance Festival The Hague - This is live! The Poetic in performance
-Documentation video- -Pictures-
Pictures are made by Performance site The Hague
July 2017