De Grote HSP Show
At 35, Kyra Cools heard for the first time that she is a Highly Sensitive Person. What that means exactly, and what to do with it, is at the heart of De Grote HSP Show, a cabaret performance that Cools brings to the Ketelhuis at Theatre De Regentes. She takes to the stage with self-deprecating humour and unflinching honesty.
High sensitivity might sound vague, but Kyra Cools makes something concrete of it. In 20% of the population, different parts of the brain are active when processing stimuli, and those stimuli are also processed more deeply. When Cools found this out about herself, a search began: what does it actually mean, in a world built on rationality and expectations?
From problem to talent
The show follows that search step by step. Liberation, Cools explains, came only when she allowed herself to be herself. With her sensitivity, but also with her blunders and missteps. No longer making things difficult about her own difficulty. And then something unexpected emerges: what she once saw as a problem turns out to be a talent. That realisation is the driving idea behind the show.
Kyra Cools, Malinca Verwiel and Gerard Commijs
Cools performs the show herself; direction is by Malinca Verwiel. Gerard Commijs is responsible for the arrangements. There is no interval.
