Servé Hermans: 'This version of "Eyes wide shut" is a modern-day Odyssey'

by Onno Weggemans
23 August 201630 March 2022
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Eerst was er het boek van Arthur Schnitzler. Toen de film van Stanley Kubrick. En nu dan het toneelstuk. Vanaf 27 augustus speelt Toneelgroep Maastricht Eyes wide shut. Nadat zijn vrouw haar seksuele fantasieën heeft opgebiecht, zoekt een man tegen de achtergrond van het carnavalsfeest koortsachtig naar zijn eigen diepst verborgen verlangens.
"Ik wilde altijd al een keer gepsychologiseerd drama maken," vertelt Servé Hermans, artistiek leider van Toneelgroep Maastricht. "Onze toneelversie van Eye...

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