Groningen, that part of the Netherlands where the earth moves. I should know, with family in epicentre Loppersum. But nothing beats Groningen, especially during Noorderzon, the festival that combines theatre, music, literature and much more for ten days. Here are our five recommendations. Do you have any other tips of your own? Report them in the comments!
Employee of the Year, 600 Highwaymen
Having amateurs play the lead roles in professional productions a bad idea? Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone think very differently. As 600 Highwaymen, they are quickly making a name for themselves from New York with their unorthodox working methods. Last year, they already made a big impression with fifty 'ordinary' Groningers in The Record. Employee of the Year goes one step further. Together, five girls aged roughly 11 play a slowly ageing woman looking back on a turbulent life.
La Imaginación del Futuro, Teatro La Re-Sentida
What if-performance from Chile. We all know that General Pinochet deposed President Allende in 1973, which was followed by years of horror. But what if a group of politicians had been able to prevent the coup, to keep Allende in power? What would Chile have looked like now? Would everything have become much better or maybe not quite?
Extension, Cirque Inextremiste
Expose children to sand and they start digging. And in fact, we never stop doing that. In the garden to plant; on any piece of land to build houses, lay pipes. Once we grow up, tools and machines take over from our hands. But the fascination with diggers remains. French circus company Cirque Inextremiste shows that you can do much more with fearsome machines in a show that will make you look at a construction site forever differently.
An Elegy to the Medium of Film, Lundahl & Seitl
The filmed image is everywhere and all the time. Television is obsolete, cinema is saving it thanks to laser projection and 3D, furthermore, tablet and smartphone rule. But would our imagination work in the same way if the medium of film did not exist? That question is the starting point for Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl's 'cinematic theatre installation', in which the spectator himself becomes the film projector.
Snow, Lod Music Theatre/Silbersee
A performance for toddlers without words, but with lots of dance and music. Based on the Russian fairy tale about the snow girl who can't stand heat, Flemish theatre producer Inne Goris and the musicians of Silbersee create a wonderful world full of surprises. And many, many, snowflakes.
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