Anne Neuteboom starts chaotic, but gradually a lot falls into place

She broke off her relationship, and there the self-employed person went into the cultural sector: straight to the drain of the Utrecht housing market. Anne Neuteboom ended up in an anti-squat in Den Dolder. In corona time, also. With a robot vacuum cleaner, that is.

It is the starting point of her third cabaret performance Don’t bother with your opinion. Opinions are not long in coming: about scientists who believe in God, about boomers who record everything, everything, everything in a museum with their smartphones in folding covers. Anne Neuteboom would like people to be a little less greedy. But yeah.

With her previous program, watch her go, she was nominated in 2019 for the cabaret prize Neerlands Hoop, for the most promising maker. That performance, too, initially had a high heel-on-the-branch content. Later it turned out that Anne Neuteboom’s intense rebuke, energy peak after energy peak, covered a more vulnerable side of her story.

This time, the welcome sign is a life lesson that she half-discloses: “If I’ve learned anything in the 33 years that I’ve been on this planet, it’s that when you’re right, you’re always wrong at the same time.”

From the moment she embarks on a funny discourse about faking orgasms (and an appetite for board games), everything just falls into place. Then it also becomes clear what a total lack of enjoyment of living has to offer Anne Neuteboom and her audience, in terms of right, wrong, inside and outside, and adjust judgments and judgements. An unforeseen apotheosis – something with an elderly villager who gives her a broken washing machine – makes up for the tangled start.