'Eyes Wide Shut': Film and book battle on stage, and music wins

by Onno Weggemans
3 October 201630 March 2022
4 min read
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'Laat mij in tranen mijn lot beklagen. En laat mij verlangen naar de vrijheid.' Waar zou mijn voorkeur naar uitgaan: boek, film of toneelstuk? Die vraag fascineerde me toen bleek dat Toneelgroep Maastricht het boek Droomnovelle van Arthur Schnitzler en de daarop gebaseerde film Eyes Wide Shut van Stanley Kubrick bewerkt had tot een nieuw toneelstuk. Eigenlijk was het geen eerlijke wedstrijd. De uitkomst stond al van tevoren vast. Ik lees en schrijf al verhalen zolang ik me kan herinneren. Ik lee...

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Onno Weggemans

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