PLEIN THEATER presents The Week of Karina Holla from 25 to 28 November

"Karina Holla not only created an impressive body of physical and visual performances for which she received several awards, including the Theo d'Or in 2018, she was also an important building block in theatre and inspired a whole generation of theatre-makers." - Director Berith Danse

Therefore, from 25 to 28 November, the PLEIN THEATER presents The Week of Karina Holla: An in-depth look at the performance War Women and an ode to the work of Dutch mime player, actress, choreographer and director Karina Holla and her significance for theatre.
An in-depth look at the performance War Women and an ode to the work of Dutch mime player, actress, choreographer and director Karina Holla and her significance for theatre.

War Wives

This season, Karina Holla created the performance War Women, in which she plays and tells war stories of young Russian women who entered the war in 1941 to fight Hitler. The stories come from The War Has No Woman's Face (1988), a book by Belarusian writer and investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. She interviewed 300 Russian women about their experiences in World War II. Women, often girls still, who went to war in 1941 to defend their country against Hitler. Partisans, fighter pilots, mechanics and snipers.

Instead of brides, they became soldiers. They fought like the men, rifle and bayonet at the ready. The women carried rifles sometimes bigger than themselves or as if the gun were a doll. They were captured, tortured and killed. Faced with great brutality, they remained brave and unyielding. Women who were not allowed to be women for four years.

For a long time they were silent. What they experienced at the front was too gruesome. But they have not forgotten. Karina Holla tells their story. The story of unimaginably strong women in unimaginable circumstances.

Media on War Women:

"Karina Holla Glories as Powerful Warrior Woman" -. Theatre newspaper
"Quietly, playwright Karina Holla tells the gritty short stories that breathe hope and resilience" - -. Volkskrant ★★★★
War Wives among best three theatre experiences according to theatre critics - Theatre newspaper

Programme The week of Karina Holla | PLEIN THEATER

Besides presenting the performance War Women, the PLEIN THEATER in collaboration with Karina Holla organises an in-depth programme around each performance.

• Wednesday 25 November 20:30 | War Women - Karina Holla
• Nap programme: Interview by Andrea van Pol with director Mette Bouhuijs and actors Karina Holla, Roman Brasser and Rowan Kievits. The interview will also be streamed live on the homepage of www.plein-theater.nl
• Thursday 26 November 20:30 | War Women - Karina Holla
• + Aftertalk with the audience and actors Karina Holla, Roman Brasser and Rowan Kievits, led by director Berith Danse.
• Friday 27 November 20:30 | War Women - Karina Holla
• + Aftertalk with the audience and actors Karina Holla, Roman Brasser and Rowan Kievits, led by director Berith Danse.
• Saturday 28 November 20:30 | War Women - Karina Holla
• Naprogramma:
• Cello - Anne Sophie Fransen
• Poems - Paul van der Laan
• Vocals - Marie Körbl
• Location: PLEIN THEATER | Sajetplein 39

More information and tickets: www.plein-theater.nl