From 6 December, theatre Kikker will show a week-long anthology of talented and diverse young theatre-makers. We looked ahead to this Winter collection. Hannah Roelofs, herself just over 30, issues five warnings for people over 29.
1. Twenty-somethings!
'This is the generation that has spent their entire lives being told by mum and dad that they can make of their lives what they want and is now facing the realities of real life.' Says programmer Jolie Vreeburg.
But what if you are no longer in your twenties? Then why would you go to see performances with a presumably high 'help the world is complicated' character? Because it's of all times? Because I'm secretly curious about what drives this generation? Because I am secretly curious about what theatrical forms she wraps her quest in?
2. The Wall, The Wall! Which Wall?
In the performance 'Being Singular Plural', two people become one in a breathtaking way, merging into each other. That already sounds like a love it or hate it performance that is oppressive but can become liberating. Eva Line de Boer sets the world like a puppet show in ' This is all happening at once' and how literal would Sanne Verkaaik become in the myth 'Return of the Wall'? The Wall fell in 1989 best Millenials. And the world has only gotten better since then. Right? Nothing to break your pretty, wrinkle-free, little heads in the theatre about. Why should we even go to the theatre in the first place?
3. Grab them by the p*ssy
'Macho Macho' by Igor Vrebac is an examination of all those different roles and images the man of today has to live up to. Two days later, Birgit Welink takes to the stage with '#1 Let me be your hero, baby', which explores the role of the female, acting, hero. Since gays can safely walk the streets in the Netherlands and women earn exactly the same as men, these kinds of performances about gender and gendertroubles hopelessly out of fashion. Stay home and watch 'The bold and the Beautiful' where a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
4 You are no longer on Jolie's real bench
Programmer Vreeburg normally drags her entire household goods to the theatre for the 'Chez Jolie' talk show. This year, she is holding off. Her friends are no longer twenty and don't have time to drive vans, so a thrift store interior is deployed. Those interesting after-dinner conversations with the creators and guests may never amount to anything now that Jolie no longer has to worry about wine stains on her own sofa and can concentrate entirely on the guests.
5. Utrecht, where is that?
No classical repertory theatre to be found this whole week in Kikker, no big names or high prices either, and no hour-long marathon performances either. Add to that the fact that Utrecht is extremely difficult to reach from the rest of the country, you can only draw one conclusion....
Staying at the Winter Collection might just make for some heart-warming days. Brr.
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