Theatre-goer Han on donating and bequeathing.

The theatre as a second home: Han lets his passion live on

Some forty times a year, Han passes the door of the theatre. Always with curiosity. Always with anticipation.

He remembers his first visit well:Spring Awakening by a Flemish company, sometime in 1990. A performance about puberty, budding sexuality and parenting. A story that touched and stuck. There, in that dark hall, a love arose that would never pass.

As a child, he never went there. Theatre was not in his childhood. But the desire was there. It was only after his studies, when he became a physics teacher, that he really found his way there. He moves to a flat right in the centre of Heerlen. A place with lots of activity and a stone's throw from the theatre. From then on, the theatre feels like his second home.

In the years that followed, his love for theatre continued to grow. Han himself plays in Speelgroep Expressie, an association in Heerlen. Later, he becomes a monologist and forms a cabaret duo together with a former colleague.

In his work, too, there is always that theatricality. When he retires, he does not opt for a speech or reception, but for a physics show. He plays a fired professor whose experiments all fail. A story about failure, about wonder about exactly what his life is about: the pleasure of trying, of learning, of continuing to search.