Buur(t)man, duet voor een individu

A middle-aged Black man reflects on his life so far. As a starting point, he takes the observation of his direct and indirect environment, and the conclusions he draws from it.

In Buur(t)man, our lead character begins to question his years of tireless, deeply felt attempts to adapt to and integrate into his environment, and the hope of being accepted and included within it. He begins to scrutinise his dependence on his environment and its connection to his self-image. How much of his life has he spent creating and presenting an image of himself the way his environment likes to see him? And why did he attach so much value to this? Why did he never make the same effort to stand up for his 'real' self? A confrontation with the dramatic contrast between personal expectations and (those of) an environment follows.