'Actually, the romantic relic Platonov has been snowed in for about a hundred years. And now he comes back, and he walked into the wrong room'

by Fleur Jansen
6 March 201829 March 2022
12 min read
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Platonov, Theatre Utrecht's latest show, premiered on 2 March and is an instant hit: rave reviews in all major newspapers. Artistic director and director Thibaud Delpeut based his version of this archetypal Chekhov play on actor Jacob Derwig's 2000 translation for 't Barre Land. This equally legendary performance fitted perfectly into the zeitgeist of the fresh millennium. Delpeut's adaptation now places the play in a group of people who are precisely ...

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Fleur Jansen

Fleur Jansen (1976) writes for film, television and theatre and is a compiler of collections of stories from around 1900. She wrote her first texts for Entertainment Experience, a film project led by director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Robert Alberdingk Thijm. After winning a screenplay award and the project an Emmy Award, she attended two master classes in the US. Recently, she wrote a TV miniseries with a grant and took a seat on the editorial board of Mediafonds' final festival. In her spare time, she works for the corporate world where she deploys 20 years of (international) work experience. Fleur Jansen studied Policy Studies at the UvA (1999) and occasionally writes for Cultuurpers.View Author posts

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