Juggler meets drummer in the back of a lorry. This is the premise of Pakman, a performance by Flemish theatre company Post uit Hessdalen (PUH). It is played literally inside the loading bay of a lorry, which fits 25 visitors at a time. PUH is the company of juggler and video maker Stijn Grupping and director Ine Van Baelen. Together with musician Frederik Meulyzer they create hybrid performances that feature juggling and music. Today’s performance of Pakman came about in collaboration with Korzo, whose Cirque Mania festival coincides with Dag in de Branding.

Delivery services have become part and parcel of modern life. We can have everything and anything delivered to our doors, often even within a day’s notice. Pakman is about the invisible people who keep the runaway logistics of our economy running. Its protagonist Pakman, in the words of his creators, ‘lives faster than a mouse can click. 1 parcel, 2 forms, 3 stamps, 6 signatures, 450 times a day, 159,750 parcels a year in exchange for 10 days off.’