{"id":160,"date":"2025-04-14T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:48:26","slug":"ecc-trash-day-homunculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/2025\/04\/14\/ecc-trash-day-homunculus\/","title":{"rendered":"ECC: Trash Day \/ Homunculus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(14-25 April 2026)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The English Comedy Club presents<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>two new one-act comedies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trash Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em><strong>Written and Directed by Aravind Dhakshinamoorthy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strange incident on a quiet night in Brussels on trash day propels three people into frantic moral reasoning about their lives and unresolved failures. What follows is a collision of talk, assumptions, and self-justifications. Sometimes all it takes is a great listener to place the truth, like the trash bags, finally outside.&nbsp;Trash Day (white, yellow and blue) is a dark comedy about guilt, projection, and the chaos we create when no one is willing to shut up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homunculus \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>Written by Santiago Mallan, Directed by Tom Mallan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art is the best revenge. &nbsp;It\u2019s their umpteenth breakup, but this time feels different to artist and self-styled sorceress Mimi. The obvious solution? Sculpt an idol of her ex during a thunderstorm, and top it off with the &nbsp;foulest lovehate potion alchemy can brew!&nbsp;An \u201cimpish word-drunk play\u201d giving \u201cbig laughs and sharp plot turns with confidence\u201d (Rob Weinert-Kendt, American Theatre Magazine), Homunculus is a classic farce in modern verse, a romance for the ages, an explosion of creativity, and a monstrously good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billetweb.fr\/trash-day-homunculus\">Book tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(14-25 April 2026) The English Comedy Club presents&nbsp;two new one-act comedies: Trash Day&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Written and Directed by Aravind Dhakshinamoorthy A strange incident on a quiet night in Brussels on trash day propels three people into frantic moral reasoning about their lives and unresolved failures. What follows is a collision of talk, assumptions, and self-justifications. Sometimes all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bootstrap_fitness_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-26","category-current","category-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatreinbrussels.com\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}