The National Stage Theatre works on its mission to bring society to the stage. The Nation, that insane marathon featuring Romana Peace about a disappearance in the Schilderswijk neighbourhood, and Mark Rietman, will be ready this autumn. Anyone who thought it would be time for another piece of tedious retro-hawk comedy after that is wrong. We do have a classic coming in February, but because disruption specialist Daria Bukvic at the helm there, will this Othello not turn into a standard match white verses cancel. In this case, we will take that figuratively as well.
What we are all looking forward to at least as much is the premiere of Metropolis, a new project by Sadettin Kırmızıyüz. It will premiere in March. A play, according to Kırmızıyüz based on THE American series of the first decade of this century: The Wire. The series is particularly inspiring because of its structure: each season looked at the same problem from a very different group, a very different population, and a very different layer of government. Sadettin Kırmızıyüz starts teaching in March.
Kırmızıyüz said in the press release: 'Within education, the foundations are laid for your self-confidence. This is where you first come into contact with what society might look like outside and in the city. Where does "old education" clash with "education-new-style"? How is the student, that unpolished diamond, kept within the doors of the school and protected from the temptations of the Big City?'
The question then becomes how to combine that with the video below, but that is for Kırmızıyüz.
Rotterdam
Observant readers will now think: but he was going to do that in Rotterdam, wasn't he? That's right, but Rotterdam decided just when he wanted to start that everything had to be different. So Kırmızıyüz was artistically homeless. Until Eric de Vroedt offered him shelter. His National Theatre gave space to Sadettin's own production company Trouble Man to release Metropolis. It should become a series. In this way, De Vroedt also helps further build The Hague's reputation as the city where politics is made everywhere except in the Lower House.
What happens in the meantime in Rotterdam, we'll find out.
English (UK) 
Nederlands 
Français 
