What’s on: Quarantine edition 4

Toneelhuis theatre company in Antwerp has cleverly turned its name around to create Huistoneel, stage productions online. Most of the productions are in Dutch, but the English version of Het kleine meisje van meneer Linh (Monsieur Linh and his Child) is also on the site. Toneelhuis has gone a few steps further than just letting you watch past productions, though. Theatre director Guy Cassiers is reading bedtime stories on the Toneelhuis Facebook page every evening at 21.00. Artist Benjamin Verdonck is creating new works at home. And actors are reviving some of their favourite roles, also from home. All of it will be online on the theatre’s website and Facebook page.

Austrian-American designer Victor Papanek was ahead of his time. The 20th-century designer of products from playground structures to furniture and lighting shunned mass manufacturing and consumerism in favour of making affordable goods using recycled materials. His Design for the Real World (1971) is still the best-selling design book of all time. C-Mine in Genk has a wonderful exhibition dedicated to the man and his legacy, which never even got the chance to open before the coronavirus measures took effect. Now you can see it on YouTube, complete with a guided tour (in Dutch).

While Stephan Vanfleteren is world famous, his portrait photography can best be appreciated by the people of Belgium, who instantly recognise famous faces like actor Jan Decleir (pictured), hip-hop singer Stromae and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. The retrospective of Vanfleteren’s work at Antwerp’s photography museum was cut short, but several excellent short videos offer a guided tour. A new one is published every week. They are in Dutch with subtitles in English.