In 2002 Abke Haring graduated from what was then the Herman Teirlinckinstituut in Antwerp with her self-written monologue Nageslachtsfarce/genocide. She has since alternated acting, writing and directing. After Nageslachtsfarce/genocide she went on to write two new plays, Kortstond (zelfbaat/tucht) and Cerebraal Vernis. Together they form a trilogy, a “country farce full of misery and shit, centring on the death of a mother”. Rather than three stories, they are snapshots in time, cross-sections of a head at hectic moments.