Adventurous and off-kilter, this Dutch company plumbs the depths of the human psyche with unsettling and often uproarious results.

In Liga, the story begins at the end, as we watch a video of actors who have just completed a show-the one, in fact, that we are about to see performed. They congratulate and compliment each other enthusiastically; disappointments are smoothed over, and failures denied. Then we see the performance begin, and we now see the actors as five characters: young, playful and easy to influence, with the all-too-human need for attention and conformity making them susceptible to manipulation.

Liga is about acting as pretending; about the influence of our surroundings, including media, on our behavior; and about the universal human impulse to please. The juxtaposition of film and live performance, the suggestion of interior monologues behind the onstage dialogue, and the awareness that, as audience, we are complicit in a deception, combine to make this company's work as mind-blowing as it is hilarious.

Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum's Off The Wall Performance Series

* Learn more about Kassys and Liga in a post-performance Q & A.