The anniversary season of Frisian theatre company Tryater, which turned 60 in September, continues with undiminished enthusiasm after the turn of the year. After the highly successful public performance series Anwar and the wolf in the Christmas holidays, despite the winter weather, rehearsals for the next title began this week Plûns. For the venue performance Swimbad (May-June), meanwhile, thanks to a discount promotion, ticket sales are on the rise.
Plûns andSwimbad
Plûns is a primary school performance for pupils aged four and above and tours the province from 17 February to mid-April. The ‘adventurous performance for scared divers and brave from-the-side viewers’ directed by Tamara Schoppert is about daring things you didn't dare before, about jumping into the deep end. The play with actors Raymond Muller and Mats Voshol thematically sorts for Swimbad, the big location performance in Bakkeveen with which Tryater will close the theatre season and its 60th anniversary in May-June. Public ticket sales for that performance started on 1 December with a special early booking discount; this promotion continues until the end of January.
Artistic director Tatiana Pratley: ‘Us jubileumseizoen giet foar in grut part oer generaasjes. Minsken fan alle leeftiden binne ynspirearre rekke yn dy sechtich jier: mannich folwoeksen akteur bygelyks, hat als bern in stik fan Tryater sjoen. That we in skoalfoarstelling tematysk so aan in grutte, iepenbiere foarstelling keppelje kinne, ûnderstreket het belang fan der wêzen foar alle leeftiden. Swimbad sels giet ek oer libbensfazes, oer de leaps yn het djippe dy't men makket of de weagen dêrst kalm op meigean kinst. We hawwe in moai earste seizoensdiel efter de rêch mar der komt noch in soad prachtichs oan.’
Performances, collaborations and the book
In addition to Plûns Tryater serves schools with another series of performances of the well-received Anwar and the wolf, for students as young as eight years old. Slowly, together with amateur societies and players, the company is also preparing for the Ienakterfestival, with which Tryater strengthens its connection with the Frisian theatre field at the end of March. At the same time, jubilee book Tryater spilet in bookstores. Published around founding date 7 September through publisher Afûk, the book recounts sixty years of Frisian and multilingual theatre. It counts some two hundred pages in which, among other things, all posters from those six decades can be seen and the extensive articles are amply provided with photo material.
Until Swimbad Tryater celebrates another 60th anniversary. In between, people are already hard at work on the next theatre season, in which a number of special projects are in the pipeline.
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